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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Oct 14, 2014, 7:53 AM EDT for Stephens County, Georgia; Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 52 min. 3 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
- Oct 14, 2014, 7:53 AM EDT (11:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2014, 8:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Stephens County, GA, Oconee County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 7:55 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Eastanolee, GA | MULTIPLE TREES DOWN AROUND EASTANOLEE WITH TREES DOWN ON POWER LINES AT FREEMAN CREEK ROAD. |
| Oct 14, 7:55 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Toccoa, GA | SCATTERED TREES DOWN AROUND THE CITY OF TOCCOA. |
| Oct 14, 8:11 AM EDT | TORNADO | 6 Wnw Westminster, SC | A BRIEF...WEAK TORNADO WITH A NARROW DISCONTINUOUS PATH OF TREE DAMAGE WAS SURVEYED ON THE PROPERTY OF FAIR PLAY WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL. APPROXIMATELY 25 HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD TREES WERE TOPPLED AND/OR UPROOTED. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 6:57 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 191 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
944
WFUS52 KGSP 141153
TORGSP
GAC257-SCC073-141245-
/O.NEW.KGSP.TO.W.0012.141014T1153Z-141014T1245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
753 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
STEPHENS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA...
OCONEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 845 AM EDT
* AT 751 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR EASTANOLEE...OR NEAR TOCCOA...AND MOVING NORTH AT 30
MPH.
* THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
LONG CREEK.
WALHALLA.
MOUNTAIN REST.
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.
PLEASE REPORT DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...OR FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...
800...2 6 7...8 1 0 1...OR BY POSTING ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE...OR TWEET
IT USING HASHTAG NWSGSP. YOUR MESSAGE SHOULD DESCRIBE THE EVENT AND
THE SPECIFIC LOCATION WHERE IT OCCURRED.
&&
LAT...LON 3468 8336 3469 8334 3471 8335 3476 8332
3482 8331 3482 8327 3488 8324 3493 8315
3493 8311 3497 8311 3491 8295 3447 8321
3447 8338 3449 8344
TIME...MOT...LOC 1153Z 202DEG 26KT 3454 8330
$$
072 follow-up statements
557
WWUS52 KGSP 141208
SVSGSP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
808 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014
GAC257-141218-
/O.CAN.KGSP.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-141014T1245Z/
STEPHENS GA-
808 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR STEPHENS COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THIS AREA.
LAT...LON 3471 8335 3481 8330 3482 8331 3482 8327
3487 8325 3493 8316 3493 8311 3497 8311
3491 8295 3458 8315 3461 8316 3461 8323
3469 8334
TIME...MOT...LOC 1208Z 202DEG 26KT 3468 8321
$$
SCC073-141245-
/O.CON.KGSP.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-141014T1245Z/
OCONEE SC-
808 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR OCONEE COUNTY UNTIL 845 AM
EDT...
AT 806 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF WESTMINSTER...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF
TOCCOA...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
LONG CREEK.
WALHALLA.
MOUNTAIN REST.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
PLEASE REPORT DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...OR FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...
800...2 6 7...8 1 0 1...OR BY POSTING ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE...OR TWEET
IT USING HASHTAG NWSGSP. YOUR MESSAGE SHOULD DESCRIBE THE EVENT AND
THE SPECIFIC LOCATION WHERE IT OCCURRED.
&&
LAT...LON 3471 8335 3481 8330 3482 8331 3482 8327
3487 8325 3493 8316 3493 8311 3497 8311
3491 8295 3458 8315 3461 8316 3461 8323
3469 8334
TIME...MOT...LOC 1208Z 202DEG 26KT 3468 8321
$$
07181
WWUS52 KGSP 141237
SVSGSP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
837 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014
SCC073-141246-
/O.EXP.KGSP.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-141014T1245Z/
OCONEE SC-
837 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR OCONEE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 845 AM EDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LEVELS. HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.
ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA LATER.
STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS OR NOAA ALL HAZARDS WEATHER RADIO
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3471 8335 3481 8330 3482 8331 3482 8327
3487 8325 3493 8316 3493 8311 3497 8311
3491 8295 3458 8315 3461 8316 3461 8323
3469 8334
TIME...MOT...LOC 1236Z 202DEG 26KT 3487 8312
$$
07The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 10:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 27 hr |
| Oct 14, 6:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 48 min |
| Oct 14, 7:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Rabun, Stephens | 2 hr |
| Oct 14, 8:42 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 108 min |
| Oct 14, 4:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Rabun | 2 hr |
| Oct 14, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Hart | 42 min |
| Oct 14, 8:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Pickens and 2 more | 111 min |
| Oct 14, 8:41 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenville, Oconee, Pickens | 49 min |
| Oct 14, 9:52 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union and 1 more | 113 min |
| Oct 14, 10:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg | 55 min |
| Oct 14, 11:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg | 40 min |
| Oct 14, 12:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg | 52 min |
| Oct 14, 3:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 5:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville, Oconee, Pickens | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 6:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville, Oconee, Pickens | 4 hr |
| Oct 14, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 46 min |
| Oct 14, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 42 min |
| Oct 14, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 41 min |
| Oct 14, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 48 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.