1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 12, 1:44 PM EST, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 244 PM EDT SAT MAY 12 2001 ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED TRW DEVELOPING ACROSS FA THIS AFTERNOON. MOISTURE CONVERGENCE ALONG PREFRONTAL TROUGH AND MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIR MASS SHOULD KEEP CONVECTION GOING THROUGH SUNDOWN. ISOLATED SEVERE POSSIBLE...MAINLY HAIL. BEYOND THAT...ACTUAL FRONT TO MOVE THROUGH TONIGHT. HIGH BUILDS INTO AREA SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. CLOSED LOW OFF EAST COAST WILL BRING SHORT WAVE TROUGH ACROSS OH VALLEY...DEEPENING MEAN TROUGH OVER SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. THIS SHOULD BRING ANOTHER SHOT AT PRECIP TO WRN CAROLINAS BY WEDNESDAY. REPEAT PERFORMANCE FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY WILL BRING ANOTHER CHANCE OF RAIN. FCSTID = 11 GSP 54 75 47 79 / 20 0 0 0 AND 54 75 47 79 / 20 0 0 0 CLT 54 75 47 79 / 20 0 0 0 HKY 51 72 46 78 / 20 0 0 0 AVL 47 69 41 75 / 20 0 0 0 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Just north of the border with Newberry County, general public reported hail hitting windows so hard they thought the windows would break.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, May 2001
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