Thunderstorm Wind, Burke
- When
- June 30, 2:35 PM EST
- Where
- Burke County, Waynesboro
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 33.080, -82.020
Sheriff reported trees and powerlines down around the city.
Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 30, 2007
An isolate storm produced wind damage in Burke County.
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
- None recorded
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS CAE wrote it up.
An isolate storm produced wind damage in Burke County.
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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 30, 2:31 PM EST, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 2:31 PM EST, 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 331 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2007 .SYNOPSIS... BACK DOOR COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD INTO AREA TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL COVER AREA MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING/... WARM UNSTABLE AIRMASS AHEAD OF APPROACHING COLD FRONT THIS EVENING. LIS RUNNING -4/-6...CAPES 2500-3000 J/KG...PWS AROUND 2 INCHES AND CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES AT 91F. ATMOSPHERE WEAKLY SHEARED BUT POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR WET MICROBURSTS. BOTH PULSE STORMS AND MULTICELLAR POSSIBLE. CONCUR WITH SPC WATCH BOX FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER AREA THROUGH 8 PM. && .SHORT TERM /9 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT/... THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD DECREASE IN INTENSITY BY 9 PM. WILL GO ABOVE GUIDANCE POPS THIS EVENING. PLAN ON 50 PERCENT CHANCE. NAM 40 KM SHOWING MOISTURE FLUX WITH MARGINAL LIS -2/-3 OVER AREA. WILL KEEP 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EVEN AFTER MIDNIGHT. STILL A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AS COLD FRONT DROPS SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE AREA. WILL GRADUALLY END SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE NORTH SUNDAY NIGHT...STARTING WITH 20-30 PERCENT CHANCE SUNDAY EVENING. WILL TAKE OUT NORTH LATE SUNDAY NIGHT BUT HOLD ONTO A 20 PERCENT CHANCE SOUTH PART CLOSER TO WHAT IS LEFT OF THE FRONT. HIGH PRESSURE EXPECTED TO BUILD OVER AREA MONDAY. WILL INCLUDE A SLIGHT CHANCE AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CSRA AS FORECAST RAOBS ARE SHOWING ENOUGH MOISTURE...PWS 1.5-1.75 INCH WITH LOW CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES NEAR HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 80S. OTHERWISE...DRY REST OF AREA. && .LONG TERM /TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/... LONG WAVE TROUGH APPEARS TO BE ALONG THE EAST COAST ALLOWING A FEW SHORT WAVES TO DROP SOUTHEAST DURING THE TIME. SURFACE HIGH CENTERED NORTH TO NORTHEAST OF THE AREA TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WITH EAST TO NORTHEAST SURFACE WINDS. EXPECT JULY 3/4 TO BE DRY WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES GENERALLY NEAR 90F. HIGH MOVES EAST BY THURSDAY AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT APPROACHING. SURFACE WINDS BECOME SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST ALLOWING MORE MOISTURE WITH WARMER TEMPERATURES. THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY MORE LIKE JULY WITH HIGHS IN THE LOWER 90S AND LOWS IN THE LOWER 70S. ALSO...CHANCE TO SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. && .AVIATION /18Z SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... VFR CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA CURRENTLY. DIURNAL CUMULUS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP. EXPECT GOOD CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WILL HANDLE NEAR TERM TS THREATS WITH AMENDMENTS WHEN RADAR TRENDS WARRANT INCREASED CONFIDENCE OF THAT AT SPECIFIC TAF SITES. FOG POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...ESPECIALLY WHERE ANY LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...HOWEVER WILL NOT PUT THAT IN THE TAFS AT THIS TIME DUE TO UNCERTAINTIES WITH REGARD TO EXTENT OF RESIDUAL CONVECTIVE DEBRIS CLOUDINESS. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AFTERNOON...OTHERWISE NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IMPACTS EXPECTED SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. && .CAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SC...NONE. GA...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...07 NEAR TERM...07 SHORT TERM...07 LONG TERM...07 AVIATION...31
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 4:25 AM EST, 10 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 525 AM EDT SAT JUN 30 2007 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-011000- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 525 AM EDT SAT JUN 30 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT ACROSS VIRGINIA INTO TENNESSEE WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH TODAY AND APPROACH SOUTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE FRONT. A FEW SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE STRONGER STORMS ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN. LOCALIZED FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT WILL BE A CONCERN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SLOWLY ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY THEN MOVE SOUTH OF THE AREA BY MONDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED DURING THE DAY. ONCE AGAIN...THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:33 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
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 30, 2007
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- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Missouri, June 30, 2007
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 30, 2007
- Lightning Strikes in Florida, June 30, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 30, 2007
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Texas, June 30, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 30, 2007
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 30, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 30, 2007
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Arkansas, June 30, 2007
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, June 2007
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: 30934.