1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Jan 13, 10:10 PM EST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1010 PM EST THU JAN 13 2005 .SHORT TERM (REST OF TONIGHT)... ANOTHER UPDATE FOR REPLACEMENT OF WT 14 WITH NEW TOR WATCH 15 EFFECTIVE UNTIL 10Z. THIS WILL NECESSITATE REARRANGING OF ZONES. OVERNIGHT TEMPS LOOK OK. DECIDED BEST COURSE OF ACTION WOULD BE TO EXTEND LAKE WIND ADVISORY ACROSS ENTIRE FORECAST AREA FOR REMAINDER OF THE OVERNIGHT. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... ISSUED AT 1010 PM. SHORT TERM (REST OF TONIGHT)... EXTREME WESTERN PART OF TOR WATCH 14 CLEARED...SEE LATEST SPSGSP. STILL VERY ACTIVE AS OF 10PM WITH REMNANT SUPERCELL TRACKING QUICKLY NE ACROSS THE NW PIEDMONT OF NC. LINEAR CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE TO WORK ITS WAY EAST ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA FOR THE REMAINDER OF TOR WATCH. WILL UPDATE ZFP FOR WATCH...BUT EXPECT FEW CHANGES TO BULK OF FORECAST AT THIS POINT. ANOTHER UPDATE IS PLANNED FOR MIDNIGHT...AT WHICH TIME PRECIP CHANCES WILL BE ADDRESSED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE OVERNIGHT HOURS OVER THE WESTERN ZONES. ISSUED AT 207 PM. SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY)... SW FLOW INCREASING AS H5 TROF DIGS OVER MS VALLEY INTO GULF AND TRACKS E TOWARD AREA. DEEP MOISTURE APPROACHING FROM SW WILL BRING RAIN...POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES. STRONG S WINDS WILL ENHANCE RAINFALL OVER FAVORED UPSLOPE AREAS...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE S FACING MTN ESCARPMENT. QPF LESS THAN 2 INCHES HOWEVER AND 6HR FFG IS 3-4IN SO WILL HOLD OFF ON ANY WATCH. MODEL CAPE GETS UP TO 1100 AND HELICITY NEAR 300 SW CWA BRIEFLY THIS EVE BUT FIZZLES QUICKLY AS UPPER SUPPORT MOVES NE. VERY LITTLE THUNDER WITH THIS SYS AND CLOUD TOPS WARMING. WILL KEEP CHANCE TSTMS UNTIL MIDNIGHT. WITH 50-60KT WINDS FORECAST AT 85H WILL KEEP WIND ADVISORY THROUGH MIDNIGHT FOR THE MOUNTAINS WITH A LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE REST OF THE CWA. SYSTEM EXPECTED THROUGH BY MID DAY FRI. MODELS HAVE BACKED OFF ON COLD ADVECTION BEHIND FRONT BUT TEMPS CONTINUE TO COOL WITH HIGHS 15-20 DEG COLDER SAT-SUN...LOWS DIPPING INTO THE 20S BY SUN MORNING. LONG TERM (SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY)... MEDIUM RANGE MODELS CONTINUE TO INDICATE THAT MID-LEVEL TROF WILL CONTINUE TO AMPLIFY AFTER THE WEEKEND. LATEST RUNS OF THE GFS SHOW THAT REINFORCING SHOTS OF COLD AIR WILL ARRIVE MON MORNING AND ANOTHER SHOT WED NIGHT. H85 TEMPS BEHIND THESE FRONTS DROP INTO THE TEENS BELOW ZERO CELSIUS. ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN THE MAIN FEATURE THROUGHOUT THE EXTENDED PERIOD AND WILL ADVERTISE TEMPS CLOSE TO THE BELOW NORMAL MEX AND HPC GUIDANCE. MOISTURE SUPPLY LOOKS WEAK AHEAD OF THESE FRONTS AND WILL LIMIT PRECIP TO SCHC MTN SN...WITH FLURRIES MENTIONED WED NIGHT ACROSS THE NC MTNS. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR ALL ZONES UNTIL 6 AM EST. NC...LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR ALL ZONES UNTIL 6 AM EST. SC...LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR ALL ZONES UNTIL 6 AM EST. && SHORT TERM...MOORE
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 546 AM EST THU JAN 13 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-141110- 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- 546 AM EST THU JAN 13 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... WINDS WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING IN ADVANCE OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA...A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH. GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. REFER TO THE LATEST NPWGSP FOR MORE INFORMATION. OUTSIDE THE MOUNTAINS...A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15-25 MPH...AND POSSIBLE GUSTS TO 35 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH. REFER TO THE LATEST SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE FOR DETAILS (CAESPSGSP). A HEAVY RAIN THREAT ALSO EXISTS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS...MUCH OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE LIKELY...WITH THE SOUTHERN NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS RECEIVING LOCALIZED AMOUNTS OF 3 INCHES. REFER TO THE SPS FOR DETAILS ON THIS THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. LAMB
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</html>The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 162 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:47 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Two metal industrial buildings sustained major damage and a barn was flattened. A home next to the barn also received minor roof damage. Several trees were snapped or uprooted.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Carolina, 2005Warnings in North Carolina, January 2005
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5453701.