1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 21, 2:20 PM EST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 320 PM EDT SUN JUL 21 2002 KGSP 88D LOOPS INDICATE ISOLATED TSTMS FIRING ACRS THE UPSTATE & INTO THE MTNS...AIDED BY ENE LLVL FLOW. LAPS DATA INDICATES GREATER INSTABILITY THAN WHAT WE HAVE SEEN THE PAST SVRL DAYS WITH VALUES RANGING FROM AROUND 1500 J/KG IN THE MTNS TO NEAR 2500 J/KG IN THE PIEDMONT. VWP INDICATES A UNIFORMLY DEEP BUT WEAK ENE FLOW ALL THE WAY UP THRU THE COLUMN. GIVEN THIS PROFILE...SOME MARGINAL ISOLATED SVR NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION & STORMS MAY BE ENHANCED ALONG THE ESCARPMENT...WITH LOCALIZED HEAVY RNFL...BUT OVERALL CVRG SHOULD REMAIN 20% OR LESS THRU MID-EVENING. ON MONDAY...RETROGRADING WEAK UPPER LVL LOW IS PROGGED TO BE LOCATED OVER THE CWFA & SHORT RANGE MODELS ARE ALL INDICATING A FAIR AMOUNT OF LARGE SCALE UVV...ESPECIALLY OVER THE MTNS. WOULD EXPECT MORE...MAINLY DIURNALLY FIRED TSTM CVRG THAN WHAT WE ARE SEEING ATTM...BUT WILL NOT DRIFT FROM GOING CHC POPS. PATTERN LOOKS TO BE MORE ACTIVE THRU THE MIDWEEK PERIOD AS UPPER TROUGH PERSISTS ACRS THE ERN U.S. & PERIODIC VORTS ROTATE IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. SYNOPTIC SCALE SFC BNDRY IS ALSO PROGGED TO APPROACH AND LINGER NEAR THE CWFA THIS PERIOD ALONG WITH DEEPER RH. ALL THIS SHOULD ADD UP TO HIGHER THAN CLIMO POPS TUE-THU. FOR DAYS 5-7...UPPER PATTERN WILL DEAMPLIFY AND EASTERN U.S TROUGH TO BE REPLACED WITH A MORE ZONAL FLOW...ALTHOUGH EXPECTEDLY WEAK FLOW OVER THE SE US. DEEP RH LOOKS TO GET DISPLACED AS WELL...SO A RETURN TO MORE TYPICAL DIURNALLY FIRED...SCATTERED...IF THAT...DEEP CONVECTION. FCSTID = 55 GSP 72 90 71 90 / 10 30 30 40 AND 72 91 71 91 / 10 30 30 40 CLT 71 91 70 90 / 0 30 30 40 HKY 69 89 69 89 / 0 30 30 40 AVL 65 86 66 85 / 10 40 30 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
551 PM EDT SUN JUL 21 2002
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538 PM 5 S DACUSVILLE SC .75 INCH HAIL
07/21/02 PICKENS REPORTED BY OFF DUTY
POLICE OFFICER.
MCAVOYThe Greer radar (KGSP), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:30 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A microburst resulted in the roof being blown off of a business. Large tree limbs were also blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, July 2002
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