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NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 26, 8:57 PM EST, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 957 PM EDT WED APR 26 2006 .SHORT TERM /REST OF TONIGHT/... LAPS DATA AND 00Z FFC RAOB SHOW ELEVATED INSTABILITY FROM NC MOUNTAINS INTO NE GA AND WESTERN UPSTATE. THIS A GOOD APPROXIMATION OF THE LOCATION OF THE SFC FRONT. SHORT WAVE ROTATING INTO THE AREA HELPING PUSH STEEP ELEVATED LAPSE RATE OVER THE CWFA. SFC FRONT SHOULD SLOWLY MOVE INTO THE AREA AND EAST OVERNIGHT. EXPECT NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EASTERN SECTIONS AFTER MIDNIGHT...WITH SCATTERED TO ISOLATED CONVECTION WESTERN SECTIONS. HAVE MODIFIED THE POP/WX GRIDS TO FEATURE THIS. STILL EXPECT SCATTERED CONVECTION IN THE EAST THU MORNING AND ISOLATED CONVECTION WEST AS THIS SYSTEM SLOW TO MOVE THRU THE AREA. EVEN THOUGH ELEVATED INSTABILITY REMAINS OVERNIGHT...SEVERE CHANCES HAVE DIMINISHED WITH LOSS OF HEATING. ADDED AREAS OF FOG OVERNIGHT GIVEN THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND NORTHEASTERLY FLOW. SCOURING FRONT SLOWER AS WELL..PROLONGING THE FOG THREAT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 426 PM EDT WED APR 26 2006/ SHORT TERM /REST OF TONIGHT/... THE FORECAST WILL BE UPDATED TO CLEAR UPSTATE SC COUNTIES FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...AS ACTIVITY NOW OVER THE AREA IS QUITE TAME. ACTIVITY UPSTREAM IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA WILL HAVE TO BE MONITORED...BUT IT APPEARS TO BE FOUR OR MORE HOURS AWAY. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 236 PM EDT WED APR 26 2006/ SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/... TONIGHT... STRONGEST MOISTURE FLUX DIVERGENCE AND LOWEST SURFACE PRESSURES HAVE SHIFTED INTO THE MIDLANDS...WHILE AN AREA OF LIGHTER STRATIFORM RAIN HAS MOVED INTO THE WESTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. THEREFORE... THE SEVERE THREAT HAS SHIFTED INTO THE EXTREME EASTERN PART OF THE UPSTATE...AND EVEN THAT SHOULD BE OVER IN A COUPLE MORE HOURS. BEHIND THE RETREATING SURFACE LOW...BACK DOOR COLD FRONT SHOULD FINALLY PUSH ACROSS THE REST OF THE CWFA THIS EVENING. AS A SHORT WAVE OVER SOUTHERN MO BEGINS TO APPROACH THE AREA...AND CLOSE OFF INTO MORE OF AN ADVECTIVE FEATURE...SYNOPTIC SCALE FORCING WILL INCREASE OVER THE REGION...KEEPING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS AROUND MOST OF THE NIGHT. IN FACT...WOULDN/T BE SURPRISED IN MY CHANCE POPS AFTER 0600 UTC ARE TOO LOW. WITH MIXING INCREASING LATER TONIGHT...HAVE ELECTED NOT TO INCLUDE ANY FOG IN THE GRIDS. THE VIGOROUS SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL CROSS THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST THURSDAY. ALTHOUHG THE SURFACE COLD FRONT WILL BE EAST OF THE AREA...MOISTURE WRAPPING BACK AROUND THE SURFACE LOW AND THE MID LEVEL COOL POOL SUPPORT AT LEAST A SMALL CHACNE OF CONVECTION UDRING THE MORNING...EXITING TO THE EAST IN THE AFTERNOON. THURSDAY NIGHT FEATURES DRYING IN A WEAK DOWNSLOPE COMPONENT. A BACK DOOR COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH FROM VIRGINIA FRIDAY...CROSSING OUR AREA FRIDAY NIGHT. MOISTURE WILL BE RATHER LIMITED WITH THIS BOUNDARY INITIALLY...AND POPS WILL BE LIMITED TO SLIGHT CHANCE FRIDAY NIGHT. THE FRONT STALLS OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE AREA SATURDAY... AND ISENTROPIC LIFT IMPROVES OVER THE BOUNDARY...SUPPORTING CHANCE POPS...ALTHOUGH GULF INFLOW STILL REMAINS WELL TO THE WEST. TEMPERATURES WILL BE SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL THURSDAY AS DOWNSLOPE COMPONENT IS OFFSET BY CLOUD COVER AND LOWERING HEIGHTS. TEMPERATURES RECOVER TO AROUND NORMAL FRIDAY AS HEIHGTS RISE AND CLOUDS ERODE IN THE WAKE OF THE COOL POOL...AND WEAK DOWNSLOPE CONTINUES. CLOUDS...PRECIPITATION AND NORTHEAST FLOW WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES BELOW NORMAL SATURDAY. LONG TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... A CLOSED UPPER LEVEL LOW UPSTREAM OVER THE CENTER OF THE NATION WILL WEAKEN AND MOVE EAST IN THE MEDIUM RANGE FORECAST. HIGH PRESSURE ALONG THE EASTERN SEABOARD SUNDAY WILL GIVE WAY AS AN SURFACE WAVE MOVES EAST ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES. SCATTERED CONVECTION WILL BE CARRIED IN THE FORECAST SUNDAY AHEAD OF THE WAVE...WITH GREATER COVERAGE CARRIED WITH THE FONTAL PASSAGE ON MONDAY. WITH THE MAIN CIRULATION REAMING TO THE NORTHWEST TUESDAY...UPSLOPE MOUNTAIN SHOWERS SHOULD CONTINUE. A DRY SURFACE RIDGE WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA FOR WEDNESDAY...WITH THE NEXT FRONT WELL UPSTREAM IN THE CENTER OF THE NATION. TEMPERATURES WILL BE BELOW NORMAL SUNDAY IN A COLD AIR DAMMING CONFIGURATION...THEN WILL CLIMB TO NEAR NORMAL AS THE WEDGE DISSIPATES MONDAY. TEMPERATURES REMAIN NEAR NORMAL TUESDAY IN WEAK DOWNSLOPE FLOW BEHIND THE FRONT...AGAIN WENDESDAY AS THICKNESS RECOVERS ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE SURFACE RIDGE. SOME POTENTIAL EXISTS SATURDAY NIGHT FOR RATHER GUSTY WINDS IN A TIGHT GRADIENT OVER THE MOUNTAINS...BUT WITH ONLY LIMITED CONFIDENCE...AN OUTLOOK FOR HIGH WINDS WILL NOT BE ISSUED AT THIS TIME. AVIATION... NOT AN EASY SET OF TAFS AS A SURFACE FRONT IS SITTING RIGHT ACROSS THE MIDDLE OF THE FORECAST AREA. SOUTH OF THE FRONT...AT KAND...WINDS ARE OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST WITH UNLIMITED CIGS AND VSBYS. ALONG THE FRONT THERE ARE STRONG STORMS IN THE VICINITY OF KGSP AND KGMU AND NORTH OF THE FRONT THERE ARE LOWER CIGS AND VSBYS AND STRATIFORM RAIN. CIGS AND VSBYS SHOULD CONTINUE TO GRADUALLY LOWER AT THE NC TAF SITES. THE FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE THROUGH THE REST OF THE UPSTATE WHICH WILL KEEP WINDS OUT OF THE NORTHEAST AND WILL RESULT IN MVFR CIGS DEVELOPING THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS SHOULD STABILIZE WITH SHOWERS ENDING AROUND MIDNIGHT AS THE COLD AIR DAMMING BECOMES MORE ESTABLISHED. DRIER AIR WILL FILTER IN AFTER SUNRISE TOMORROW...LIFTING AND MIXING OUT THE LOW OVERCAST. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...RWH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 528 AM EDT WED APR 26 2006 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-270930- 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- 528 AM EDT WED APR 26 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE UPPER SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. A SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...SPSGSP...HIGHLIGHTS THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WIND GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A STRONG COLD FRONT MAY RESULT IN STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THIS WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ORGANIZED SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT NECESSARY FOR THE POTENTIAL OF ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS. HOWEVER...PLEASE FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF HAIL OR STRONG WIND.
The Greer radar (KGSP), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:58 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a house, blowing out one of the walls.
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