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 Aug 4, 1:19 PM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 219 PM EDT THU AUG 4 2005 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)... BROAD UPPER RIDGE REMAINS OVER AREA...WHILE SFC HIGH PRESSURE MEANDERS JUST TO THE N. ATMOSPHERE QUITE UNSTABLE AND WITH SFC HEATING COMBINED WITH WEAK UPPER FORCING...ISOLD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG MTNS AND FOOTHILLS. EXPECT SCT COVERAGE MTNS AND NC FOOTHILLS...ISOLD ELSEWHERE INTO THIS EVE. LIGHT WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT. A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NW FRI WITH A SFC TROF DEVELOPING AHEAD OF IT...RIGHT ACROSS THE CWA. THIS WILL LIKELY PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR DEEPER CONVECTION FOR THE AFTN AND HAVE INCREASED POPS AFTN-EVE. TEMPS WILL TOP OUT LATE THIS AFTN...THEN LOWERING THICKNESS VALUES... MORE CLOUDS AND BETTER COVERAGE OF SHWRS AND TSTMS SHOULD LIMIT HEATING BY A COUPLE DEGREES FRI. && .LONG TERM (SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY)... BY SAT AFTERNOON...WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPROACHES THE AREA FROM THE NORTH...BUT IS EXPECTED TO STALL IN OR NEAR THE AREA...AS UPPER RIDGE RETROGRADES ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST. THE NAM AND GFS ARE AT ODDS WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHEAST...WITH THE NAM BUILDING A RATHER SHARP SHORT WAVE RIDGE (COINCIDENT WITH LARGE AREA OF LOW LAYER RH) OVER THE CAROLINAS ON SAT...NORTH OF A DEVELOPING DEEP BUT WEAK CYCLONIC CIRCULATION. MEANWHILE...THE GFS...WHICH ALSO DEVELOPS THIS CIRCULATION...IS NOT AS SHARP WITH THE RIDGE...AND ACTUALLY SPREADS TROPICAL MOISTURE OVER THE AREA BY AFTERNOON. FOR NOW...WILL COMPROMISE BETWEEN THESE SOLUTIONS AND FEATURE TYPICAL EARLY AUGUST CONDITIONS...WITH SCATTERED DIURNAL CONVECTION SAT AND SUN. DIURNAL CONVECTIVE CHANCES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF THE NEXT 7 DAYS...ALTHOUGH COVERAGE COULD IMPROVE BY MID-WEEK...AS THE GFS DEPICTS THE RIDGE BREAKING DOWN A BIT...IN RESPONSE TO A SERIES OF SW TROUGHS MOVING ACROSS THE MIDWEST. BY LATE IN THE PERIOD...WILL TAPER POPS DOWN TO SLIGHT CHANCE...AS DEEP LAYER DRYING COMMENCES IN THE WAKE OF A WEAK SW TROUGH. && .AVIATION... MTNS AND NC PIEDMONT CONTINUE TO HAVE THE BEST CHANCE FOR CONVECTION SO HAVE INCLUDED CB CLOUD TYPE AT KAVL AND KHKY INTO THIS EVE. EXPECT TEMPO EARLY AM IFR FOG AT KAVL...WITH WIDESPREAD MVFR ELSEWHERE TIL 14Z. BY EARLY AFTN FRI A SFC TROF DEVELOPS ACROSS THE PIEDMONT...OUT AHEAD OF A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WHICH WILL APPROACH FROM THE NW. HAVE ADDED CB CLOUDS ALL TAF SITES BY NOON AND VCTS AT KAVL. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...RB LONG TERM...LANE AVIATION...RB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 536 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-050945- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-CALDWELL- ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD- BUNCOMBE-MCDOWELL-BURKE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON- MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-POLK-RUTHERFORD- CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER- GREENWOOD- 536 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED IN THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REST OF THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. 07
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
938 AM EDT THU AUG 04 2005
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0410 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 S ELK PARK 36.13N 81.98W
08/03/2005 AVERY NC DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
SEVERAL TREES DOWN ON PROPERTY
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CEDThe Greer radar (KGSP), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:24 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Golfball hail reported on the northeast side of Lake Burton. Also, a tree was blown down on highway 76 near Persimmon.
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