Thunderstorm Wind, Elbert
- When
- May 22, 2:10 PM EST
- Where
- Elbert County, Elberton
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 34.117, -82.867
Some trees and power lines were blown down.
Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 22, 2004
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
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 22, 12:10 PM EST, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 12:10 PM EST, 2 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 110 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 .SHORT TERM... RELATIVELY STRONG RIDGE SET UP OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. WITH ZONAL FLOW TO THE NORTH OF CWA. DURING THE NEXT WEEK WE ARE LOOKING AT A SERIES OF SHORT WAVES MOVING OVER THE RIDGE...PROVIDING A LITTLE EXTRA FORCING TO THE SUMMERTIME PATTERN. BEST CHANCE OF CONVECTION APPEARS TO BE TOMORROW. .LONG TERM... THE RIDGE CONTINUES TO WEAKEN A LITTLE AND GET PUSHED TO THE SOUTH. LOOKING AT SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS ON THURSDAY IN ADVANCE OF A WEAK FRONT...BUT MODELS ARE TOO INCONSISTENT TO ADVERTISE AN INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. MAV IS DRY...ETA MOS IS DRIER. SO WILL KEEP ISOLATED WORDING APPROPRIATE FORECASTS. GFS ADVERTISES STRONG SHORT WAVE FOR NEXT SATURDAY THAT MAY DEPRESS RIDGE FAR ENOUGH SOUTH TO TRIGGER MORE SHOWERS BY NEXT WEEKEND. THIS TROUGH LOOKS WAY TO STRONG AND THE TIMING IN SUSPECT...SO AGAIN WILL STICK WITH ISOLATED WORDING. TEMPS REMAIN ABOUT THE SAME AS RIDGE DOMINATES WEATHER. GRIDS CONTAIN ADDITIONAL MESOSCALE FEATURES LIKE CLT URBAN HEAT ISLAND AND LOCAL MORNING COOLS SPOTS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... GSP 66 89 66 90 / 20 30 20 20 AND 66 89 65 91 / 20 30 20 20 CLT 68 89 66 90 / 20 30 20 20 HKY 66 88 65 88 / 20 30 20 20 AVL 59 84 61 85 / 20 30 20 20 && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && DICARLO
Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 3:59 AM EST, 10 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 459 AM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-230900- ABBEVILLE SC-ALEXANDER NC-ANDERSON SC-AVERY NC-BUNCOMBE NC-BURKE NC- CABARRUS NC-CALDWELL NC-CATAWBA NC-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER SC- CLEVELAND NC-DAVIE NC-ELBERT GA-FRANKLIN GA-GASTON NC-GRAHAM NC- GREATER GREENVILLE SC-GREATER OCONEE SC-GREATER PICKENS SC- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC-GREENWOOD SC-HABERSHAM GA-HART GA-HAYWOOD NC- HENDERSON NC-IREDELL NC-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MACON NC-MADISON NC- MCDOWELL NC-MECKLENBURG NC-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC-POLK NC-RABUN GA-ROWAN NC- RUTHERFORD NC-SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SPARTANBURG SC-STEPHENS GA- SWAIN NC-TRANSYLVANIA NC-UNION SC-UNION NC-YANCEY NC-YORK SC- 502 AM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA...ESPECIALLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. RB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 22, 11:11 AM EST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1211 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-222000- ABBEVILLE SC-ALEXANDER NC-ANDERSON SC-AVERY NC-BUNCOMBE NC-BURKE NC- CABARRUS NC-CALDWELL NC-CATAWBA NC-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER SC- CLEVELAND NC-DAVIE NC-ELBERT GA-FRANKLIN GA-GASTON NC-GRAHAM NC- GREATER GREENVILLE SC-GREATER OCONEE SC-GREATER PICKENS SC- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC-GREENWOOD SC-HABERSHAM GA-HART GA-HAYWOOD NC- HENDERSON NC-IREDELL NC-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MACON NC-MADISON NC- MCDOWELL NC-MECKLENBURG NC-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC-POLK NC-RABUN GA-ROWAN NC- RUTHERFORD NC-SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SPARTANBURG SC-STEPHENS GA- SWAIN NC-TRANSYLVANIA NC-UNION SC-UNION NC-YANCEY NC-YORK SC- 1211 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK... ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND FLASH FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. VERY WARM AND MOIST CONDITIONS WILL RESULT IN THE ATMOSPHERE BECOMING QUITE UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON...WHILE ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THE MAGNITUDE OF FORECAST INSTABILITY SUGGESTS THAT A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREATS. SINCE COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS IS EXPECTED TO BE GREATEST IN THE MOUNTAINS...THIS WILL BE THE MOST LIKELY LOCATION FOR SEVERE WEATHER. HOWEVER...A SEVERE STORM WILL BE POSSIBLE ANYWHERE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION...STORMS WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY TODAY...AND THIS WILL CREATE THE ADDITIONAL THREAT OF LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. LANE
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:51 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes in Nebraska, May 22, 2004
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 22, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Iowa, May 22 to 23, 2004
- Flooding in Iowa, May 22 to 31, 2004
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 22, 2004
- Tornadoes in Kansas, May 22, 2004
- Hail in Nebraska, May 22, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 22, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Wisconsin, May 22 to 23, 2004
- Flooding in Iowa, May 22 to 26, 2004
- Flood in Pennsylvania, May 22 to 23, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Wisconsin, May 22 to 23, 2004
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, May 2004
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5401158.