Alert archive / South Carolina / Oconee County
Weather alerts in Oconee County, South Carolina, 2021
79 weather alerts in 2021, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Oconee County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 79
- Warnings
- 15
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 9
- Busiest month
- August21 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 17, 20215 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
0 of 2 tornado warnings covering Oconee County in 2021 had a tornado report inside them; 0 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning.
Oconee County, 2021
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% | |
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 10 | 4 | 60% | 4 | 0% | |
| Flash flood warnings | 3 | 1 | 67% | 2 | 50% | 48 min |
Each office's whole area, 2021
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC: tornado warnings | 63 | 8 | 87% | 23 | 78% | 24 min |
| NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC: severe thunderstorm warnings | 176 | 95 | 46% | 267 | 63% | 17 min |
| NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC: flash flood warnings | 47 | 22 | 53% | 57 | 70% | 94 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 11:56 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | 5 hr |
| Jan 26, 12:44 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 31 min |
| Feb 6, 10:08 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 10:34 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Mar 25, 2:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 31 min |
| Mar 25, 5:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| Mar 25, 7:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | 11 hr |
| Mar 25, 11:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | 12 hr |
| Mar 26, 1:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | 31 min |
| Mar 26, 1:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 1:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 10:14 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | 3 hr |
| Apr 8, 9:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | 25 min |
| Apr 8, 10:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 10:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | 45 min |
| May 4, 1:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| May 28, 2:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 35 min |
| May 28, 8:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 36 min |
| May 28, 8:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 44 min |
| May 28, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | 51 min |
| Jun 6, 10:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 10:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 25 min |
| Jun 8, 10:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 27 min |
| Jun 8, 10:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 23 min |
| Jun 14, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 31 min |
| Jul 9, 1:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 35 min |
| Jul 10, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 27 min |
| Jul 11, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 30 min |
| Jul 17, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 34 min |
| Jul 19, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 33 min |
| Jul 19, 6:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | 116 min |
| Jul 20, 1:56 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 2 hr |
| Jul 20, 4:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 117 min |
| Jul 23, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | 30 min |
| Jul 26, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 30 min |
| Jul 28, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 1:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 1:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 2:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 40 min |
| Aug 10, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 24 min |
| Aug 10, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 34 min |
| Aug 10, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | 49 min |
| Aug 16, 8:33 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 42 min |
| Aug 16, 9:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 52 min |
| Aug 16, 10:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 6:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 10:42 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Aug 17, 11:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | 13 min |
| Aug 17, 12:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | 23 min |
| Aug 17, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 1:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 33 min |
| Aug 20, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | 46 min |
| Aug 25, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 2:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 29 min |
| Aug 31, 2:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Aug 31, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 33 min |
| Aug 31, 11:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 24 min |
| Sep 8, 2:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 33 min |
| Sep 8, 3:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 36 min |
| Sep 8, 3:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 29 min |
| Sep 8, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | 39 min |
| Sep 8, 2:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 33 min |
| Sep 18, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 40 min |
| Oct 3, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 29 min |
| Oct 3, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 28 min |
| Oct 7, 7:08 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 6:08 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | 3 hr |
| Nov 11, 7:56 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 34 min |
| Nov 11, 7:58 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 32 min |
| Dec 11, 1:48 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 57 min |
| Dec 29, 9:44 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Dec 29, 10:16 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Dec 29, 11:48 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | 42 min |
| Dec 29, 11:56 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 10 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 3 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 7 |
| Special Weather Statement | 45 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 9 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.