Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 417
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 17, 2013, 2:57 PM EDT for 11 counties in Georgia; 28 counties in North Carolina; 30 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 2013, 2:57 PM EDT (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2013, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 69 counties
Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Union County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Richland | 46 min |
| Jul 17, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell | 58 min |
| Jul 17, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Iredell, Rowan | 63 min |
| Jul 17, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 57 min |
| Jul 17, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 53 min |
| Jul 17, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Richland, Sumter | 61 min |
| Jul 17, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Gaston, Lincoln | 61 min |
| Jul 17, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg | 54 min |
| Jul 17, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg | 66 min |
| Jul 17, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 58 min |
| Jul 17, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 56 min |
| Jul 17, 4:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Richland | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Lee, Sumter | 54 min |
| Jul 17, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington, Richland | 66 min |
| Jul 17, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Rutherford | 64 min |
| Jul 17, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke, Richmond | 57 min |
| Jul 17, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln, Rutherford | 56 min |
| Jul 17, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 55 min |
| Jul 17, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 53 min |
| Jul 17, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Rutherford | 53 min |
| Jul 17, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 63 min |
| Jul 17, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 58 min |
| Jul 17, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Pickens | 64 min |
| Jul 17, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg | 54 min |
| Jul 17, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Hart | 68 min |
| Jul 17, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union | 52 min |
| Jul 17, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert, Franklin, Hart | 66 min |
| Jul 17, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert, Hart | 60 min |
| Jul 17, 8:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Jul 17, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 62 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 2:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hart | 83 min |
| Jul 17, 4:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 75 more | 59 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.