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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

January 30, 2013Oconee County, Pickens County, South Carolina; Stephens County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jan 30, 2013, 4:11 PM EST for Oconee County, Pickens County, South Carolina; Stephens County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 30, 2013, 4:11 PM EST (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Jan 30, 2013, 4:45 PM EST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Stephens County, GA, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 30, 4:11 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	Seneca, SC	OAK TREE WITH A 12 INCH DIAMETER FELL ONTO A FENCE IN SENECA.
Jan 30, 4:25 PM EST	FUNNEL CLOUD	Walhalla, SC	TWO REPORTS OF A FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTING NEAR WALHALLA.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 30, 1:19 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 220 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 343 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 420 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 1.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

073 
WFUS52 KGSP 302111
TORGSP
GAC257-SCC073-077-302145-
/O.NEW.KGSP.TO.W.0002.130130T2111Z-130130T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
411 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL STEPHENS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA...
  EASTERN OCONEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...
  SOUTHERN PICKENS COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 445 PM EST

* AT 407 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR LAKE HARTWELL...OR 9 MILES EAST OF TOCCOA...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
  SENECA AND WALHALLA.
  LAKE KEOWEE.
  NINE TIMES AND PICKENS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO IS LIKELY DEVELOPING. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A HOUSE OR OFFICE BUILDING. PLACE AS MANY FLOORS
AND WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE.

TO REPORT DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...OR FLOODING...CALL TOLL FREE...1...
800...2 6 7...8 1 0 1...AND LEAVE A MESSAGE EXPLAINING THE EVENT AND
THE APPROXIMATE ADDRESS WHERE IT OCCURRED.

&&

LAT...LON 3457 8323 3497 8290 3494 8275 3489 8261
      3451 8308 3453 8309 3453 8311 3451 8314
TIME...MOT...LOC 2111Z 221DEG 53KT 3459 8313

$$
LANE

2 follow-up statements

869 
WWUS52 KGSP 302125
SVSGSP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
425 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

GAC257-302133-
/O.CAN.KGSP.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130130T2145Z/
STEPHENS GA-
425 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL STEPHENS COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THIS AREA.

ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THIS 
EVENING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE 
AREA UNTIL 430 PM...AND A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 
PM.  

LAT...LON 3460 8297 3471 8312 3497 8290 3494 8275
      3489 8261
TIME...MOT...LOC 2123Z 221DEG 53KT 3472 8299

$$

SCC073-077-302145-
/O.CON.KGSP.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130130T2145Z/
OCONEE SC-PICKENS SC-
425 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN PICKENS AND
EASTERN OCONEE COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM EST...

AT 420 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS 
LOCATED NEAR SENECA...OR 6 MILES SOUTH OF WALHALLA...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 60 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
  LAKE KEOWEE.
  NINE TIMES AND PICKENS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO IS LIKELY DEVELOPING OR ALREADY OCCURRING. SEEK SHELTER IN
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A HOUSE OR OFFICE BUILDING.
PLACE AS MANY FLOORS AND WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS
POSSIBLE.

TO REPORT DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...OR FLOODING...CALL TOLL FREE...1...
800...2 6 7...8 1 0 1...AND LEAVE A MESSAGE EXPLAINING THE EVENT AND
THE APPROXIMATE ADDRESS WHERE IT OCCURRED.

&&

LAT...LON 3460 8297 3471 8312 3497 8290 3494 8275
      3489 8261
TIME...MOT...LOC 2123Z 221DEG 53KT 3472 8299

$$
LANE

147 
WWUS52 KGSP 302136
SVSGSP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
436 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

SCC073-302145-
/O.CAN.KGSP.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130130T2145Z/
OCONEE SC-
436 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN OCONEE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THIS AREA. 
HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE 
AREA THROUGH 530 PM...AND A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 
PM. 

LAT...LON 3481 8289 3489 8291 3496 8287 3494 8275
      3489 8261 3479 8289
TIME...MOT...LOC 2135Z 221DEG 53KT 3485 8285

$$

SCC077-302145-
/O.CON.KGSP.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130130T2145Z/
PICKENS SC-
436 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL PICKENS COUNTY
UNTIL 445 PM EST...

AT 433 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR LAKE KEOWEE...OR 10 MILES WEST OF PICKENS...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
  NINE TIMES AND PICKENS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO IS LIKELY DEVELOPING OR ALREADY OCCURRING. SEEK SHELTER IN
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A HOUSE OR OFFICE BUILDING.
PLACE AS MANY FLOORS AND WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS
POSSIBLE.

TO REPORT DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...OR FLOODING...CALL TOLL FREE...1...
800...2 6 7...8 1 0 1...AND LEAVE A MESSAGE EXPLAINING THE EVENT AND
THE APPROXIMATE ADDRESS WHERE IT OCCURRED.

&&

LAT...LON 3481 8289 3489 8291 3496 8287 3494 8275
      3489 8261 3479 8289
TIME...MOT...LOC 2135Z 221DEG 53KT 3485 8285

$$
LANE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 30, 1:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	59 min
Jan 30, 3:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	53 min
Jan 30, 3:48 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Oconee	2 hr
Jan 30, 3:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Greenville, Oconee, Pickens	36 min
Jan 30, 4:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens	58 min
Jan 30, 5:28 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	32 min
Jan 30, 5:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson	60 min
Jan 30, 5:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	64 min
Jan 30, 6:12 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Cherokee, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg	63 min
Jan 30, 12:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rabun	58 min

Nearby

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.