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NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 30, 5:04 PM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 604 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004 .UPDATE... WILL UPDATE FCST TO INCLUDE TORNADO WATCH 340 UNTIL 11 PM. WILL INCREASE EARLY POP TO LIKELY ACROSS ALL NC COUNTIES XCPT UNION. WILL GO AHEAD AND INCREASE NC/GA MTNS TO 50 GIVEN CURRENT CONDITIONS. NO CHANGES TO ANY OTHER ELEMENTS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... MAIN CONCERN FOR THE SHORT RANGE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER...MAINLY MONDAY. ALL SIGNS POINT TO LINEAR TYPE MCS MARCHING EASTWARD ACROSS TN DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. THE MCS WILL IN ALL LIKELIHOOD STRETCH SOMEWHERE ACROSS ERN TN...BEARING DOWN ON THE NC MTNS...AT SUNRISE ON MONDAY. THE PROBLEM IS THAT UPPER FORCING AND LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE WILL WEAKEN AS THE MCS MOVES INTO THE WRN CAROLINAS IN THE 12Z-18Z TIME FRAME. WHAT IS PROBABLE IS THAT MCS WILL STILL HAVE ENUF LEFT TO BRING SOME SEVERE WEATHER...MAINLY DAMAGING WINDS...INTO THE NC MTNS IN THE MORNING...BEFORE IT RUNS OUT OF GAS CROSSING THE MOUNTAINS. FOR THAT REASON...WILL GO WITH CATEGORICAL/LIKELY POP IN THE MOUNTAINS...MAINLY MONDAY MORNING. FORCING WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN AND RACE EASTWARD DURING THE MIDDLE PART OF THE DAY...THEN WESTERLY 850MB FLOW WILL HINDER CONVECTION IN THE AFTERNOON. IT COULD BE A RELATIVELY QUIET AFTERNOON...BUT WILL KEEP CHANCE POP IN THE EVENT THAT SOMETHING CAN REGENERATE OVER THE MOUNTAINS OR ALONG A LEE TROF. WILL GO ABOVE GUIDANCE ACROSS NRN TIER FOR HIGH TEMP UNDER THE ASSUMPTION THAT DOWNSLOPE WARMING AND CLEARING WILL ALLOW TEMPS TO CLIMB INTO 80S. MONDAY NIGHT SHOULD BE QUIET...AND EXPECT TUESDAY TO BE THE SAME WAY. BOTH MODELS SHOW SOME CHANNELED VORTICITY TO OUR N WHILE THE GFS SUFFERS FROM GRID SCALE FEEDBACK ACROSS THE SE. ETA SOUNDINGS SHOW LOW LEVEL DRYING WITH THE WESTERLY FLOW AT 850MB...WHICH COMBINED WITH WARM MID LEVEL TEMPS WILL SERIOUSLY CUT DOWN ON AVAILABLE INSTABILITY. HAVE CUT BACK ON POP WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A SLIGHT CHANCE ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS...WHICH WILL NOT BE MENTIONED IN THE ZFP. THE NEXT CHANCE FOR CONVECTION SHOULD COME ON WEDNESDAY AS MODELS SHOW ANOTHER SHORT WAVE ROTATING AROUND TROF ALONG WITH UPPER DIVERGENCE WITH THE PASSAGE OF ANOTHER JET STREAK. WILL MAINTAIN THE AFTERNOON/EVENING CHANCE POP. TEMPS IN ALL OTHER PERIODS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH MODEL GUIDANCE AND ARE ACCEPTED. MID RANGE MODELS DEPICT POSSIBLE PATTERN CHANGE IN STORE BEGINNING LATE THURSDAY. GFS HAS IMPRESSIVE LONGWAVE RIDGE BUILDING DEEP INTO WESTERN CANADA DURING THE PERIOD FORCING A POLAR TROF SOUTH ACROSS THE EASTERN CONUS. TOO EARLY TO TELL WHETHER OR NOT AN ACTIVE MOIST PATTERN WILL MATERIALIZE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST BASED ON A COUPLE MODEL RUNS...BUT WENT AHEAD AND INTRODUCE CHANCE POPS FOR THE WEEKEND. HOWEVER...KEPT POPS WITHIN CLIMO AND ENSEMBLE GUIDANCE. SEASONAL OR A LITTLE BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES SEEM REASONABLE AND MADE MINOR CHANGES TO THE REST OF THE GRIDS. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && RWH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 521 AM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-310920- 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- 521 AM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY. COVERAGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GREATEST IN THE WESTERN MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT OVER THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY LATE TODAY AND THEN SWEEP EAST ACROSS TENNESSEE OVERNIGHT. ANY REMNANTS FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY REACH THE APPALACHIANS AROUND DAYBREAK ON MEMORIAL DAY. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS COULD FORM EASTWARD ACROSS THE PIEDMONT DURING THE DAY MONDAY ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS DISTURBANCE. ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER...MAINLY IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...COULD BE POSSIBLE MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS UNLIKELY TODAY...BUT MAY BE REQUIRED ON MEMORIAL DAY. HG
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 428 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004 NCZ033-048>050-302054- AVERY NC-MADISON NC-MITCHELL NC-YANCEY NC- 428 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...POSSIBLY CONTAINING A TORNADO...WAS MOVING THROUGH GREENE COUNTY TENNESSEE...HEADED FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. THE STORM WAS BEING MONITORED CLOSELY...AND IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE EITHER A TORNADO WARNING OR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MAY BECOME NECESSARY SOON FOR SOME OF THE NORTHERN MOUNTAIN COUNTIES. THE STORM WAS ALSO CAUSING LOTS OF CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND THE STORM APPEARED TO BE SPLITTING INTO TWO STORMS. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. UPDATE...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS JUST REPORTED BY A STORM SPOTTER IN GREENE COUNTY. JONES
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
727 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0720 PM HAIL MORGANTON 35.74N 81.70W
05/30/2004 0.75 INCH BURKE NC AMATEUR RADIO
ON INTERSTATE 40 IN MORGANTON.
0540 PM HAIL SPRUCE PINE 35.92N 82.07W
05/30/2004 0.50 INCH MITCHELL NC PUBLIC
MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND WINDS OF 40-50 MPH.
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LAMBThe Greer radar (KGSP), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:54 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
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