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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Oct 14, 2014, 8:41 AM EDT for Greenville County, Oconee County, Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 49 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
- Oct 14, 2014, 8:41 AM EDT (12:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2014, 9:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Greenville County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:42 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, 8:45 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Pickens, SC | ONE TREE DOWN ON ROSEDALE DRIVE. |
| Oct 14, 8:55 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Six Mile, SC | FIVE TREES AND LARGE LIMBS FROM SURROUNDING TREES DOWN. TIME ASSOCIATED FROM RADAR DATA. REPORT FROM SOCIAL MEDIA. |
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 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 429 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
550
WFUS52 KGSP 141241
TORGSP
SCC045-073-077-141330-
/O.NEW.KGSP.TO.W.0013.141014T1241Z-141014T1330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
841 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...
EAST CENTRAL OCONEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...
PICKENS COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 930 AM EDT
* AT 839 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR SENECA...OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLEMSON...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
NORRIS.
NINE TIMES.
PICKENS.
TABLE ROCK STATE PARK.
CAESARS HEAD...JONES GAP STATE PARK AND MARIETTA.
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 3483 8313 3509 8279 3508 8277 3507 8278
3507 8276 3510 8272 3510 8269 3513 8268
3512 8266 3513 8265 3512 8263 3514 8257
3504 8241 3462 8290
TIME...MOT...LOC 1241Z 220DEG 29KT 3474 8291
$$
RWH2 follow-up statements
457
WWUS52 KGSP 141300
SVSGSP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
900 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014
SCC073-141310-
/O.CAN.KGSP.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-141014T1330Z/
OCONEE SC-
900 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL OCONEE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THIS AREA.
LAT...LON 3473 8286 3474 8290 3479 8288 3487 8291
3494 8290 3498 8293 3509 8279 3507 8276
3510 8272 3510 8270 3513 8268 3512 8263
3514 8257 3504 8241 3467 8285
TIME...MOT...LOC 1300Z 213DEG 32KT 3489 8282
$$
SCC045-077-141330-
/O.CON.KGSP.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-141014T1330Z/
GREENVILLE SC-PICKENS SC-
900 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PICKENS AND NORTHWESTERN
GREENVILLE COUNTIES UNTIL 930 AM EDT...
AT 858 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR NINE TIMES...OR 7 MILES WEST OF PICKENS...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
PICKENS.
ROCKY BOTTOM.
TABLE ROCK STATE PARK.
CAESARS HEAD AND JONES GAP STATE PARK.
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 3473 8286 3474 8290 3479 8288 3487 8291
3494 8290 3498 8293 3509 8279 3507 8276
3510 8272 3510 8270 3513 8268 3512 8263
3514 8257 3504 8241 3467 8285
TIME...MOT...LOC 1300Z 213DEG 32KT 3489 8282
$$
RWH924
WWUS52 KGSP 141319
SVSGSP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
919 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014
SCC045-077-141330-
/O.CON.KGSP.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-141014T1330Z/
GREENVILLE SC-PICKENS SC-
919 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL PICKENS AND
NORTHWESTERN GREENVILLE COUNTIES UNTIL 930 AM EDT...
AT 916 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR TABLE ROCK STATE PARK...OR 12 MILES SOUTH OF BREVARD...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
CAESARS HEAD.
JONES GAP STATE PARK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
PLEASE REPORT DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...OR FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...
800...2 6 7...8 1 0 1...OR BY POSTING ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE...OR TWEET
IT USING HASHTAG NWSGSP. YOUR MESSAGE SHOULD DESCRIBE THE EVENT AND
THE SPECIFIC LOCATION WHERE IT OCCURRED.
&&
LAT...LON 3508 8279 3508 8277 3507 8278 3507 8276
3510 8272 3510 8270 3513 8268 3512 8267
3514 8257 3504 8251 3497 8273 3501 8279
TIME...MOT...LOC 1319Z 213DEG 32KT 3509 8270
$$
RWHThe 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 | 27 hr | |
| Oct 14, 7:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Oconee, Pickens | 2 hr |
| Oct 14, 7:53 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Oconee | 52 min |
| Oct 14, 8:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Pickens and 2 more | 111 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.