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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 25, 2013McDowell County, Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2013, 5:10 PM EDT for McDowell County, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 2013, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2013, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties McDowell County, NC, Rutherford County, NC

The radar

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 25, 2:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 2:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 3:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
328 PM EDT THU JUL 25 2013

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-261930-
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER-
IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA-
ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-
HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC-
CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL-BURKE MOUNTAINS-GREATER BURKE-
MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL-RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-
GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS-EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-
PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE-
GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK-
ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD-
328 PM EDT THU JUL 25 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT
NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP ACROSS THE
EASTERN SLOPES OF THE HIGH TERRAIN AND FOOTHILLS THIS
AFTERNOON..THEN MOVE INTO THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM COULD OCCUR
AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 25, 11:43 AM EDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 3:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 25, 4:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:17 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:39 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
439 PM EDT THU JUL 25 2013

GAZ010-NCZ062-063-SCZ001-252130-
MACON-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-RABUN-SOUTHERN JACKSON-
439 PM EDT THU JUL 25 2013

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN RABUN...NORTHERN
OCONEE...SOUTHEASTERN MACON AND SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTIES THROUGH 530
PM EDT...

AT 435 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF PINE MOUNTAIN...OR 15 MILES
NORTH OF WALHALLA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
  PINE MOUNTAIN...
  MOUNTAIN REST...

SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3484 8290 3473 8317 3501 8330 3509 8311

07

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:51 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
451 PM EDT THU JUL 25 2013

NCZ505-506-252130-
EASTERN MCDOWELL-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-
451 PM EDT THU JUL 25 2013

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WESTERN MCDOWELL COUNTY THROUGH
530 PM EDT...

AT 447 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF OLD FORT...OR 11 MILES WEST OF
MARION...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
  OLD FORT...

SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3580 8214 3554 8197 3554 8199 3555 8201
      3553 8203 3552 8215 3556 8224 3559 8229
      3563 8227 3565 8229 3570 8229 3573 8220
      3577 8216 3579 8216

07

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus	42 min
Jul 24, 8:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	44 min
Jul 25, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	48 min
Jul 25, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	43 min
Jul 25, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	39 min
Jul 25, 5:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Transylvania	2 hr
Jul 25, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	65 min
Jul 25, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	67 min
Jul 25, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Polk, Transylvania	57 min
Jul 25, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	49 min
Jul 25, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	40 min
Jul 24, 8:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	43 min
Jul 24, 9:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	York	110 min
Jul 25, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	51 min
Jul 25, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	44 min
Jul 25, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	55 min
Jul 25, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	47 min
Jul 25, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	62 min
Jul 25, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	44 min
Jul 25, 7:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Pickens	65 min
Jul 25, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg	59 min
Jul 25, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham	42 min
Jul 25, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Habersham, Rabun	56 min
Jul 25, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Stephens	40 min
Jul 25, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	47 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.