Isolated severe storms affected the western Piedmont of North Carolina during the early evening hours.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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 episode as NWS GSP wrote it up.
Isolated severe storms affected the western Piedmont of North Carolina during the early evening hours.
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 30, 1:47 PM EST, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
247 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007
.SYNOPSIS...
A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL ENTER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY TONIGHT...REACHING
OUR AREA BY FRIDAY NIGHT...PUSHING SOUTH OF THE AREA FOR THE WEEKEND.
&&
.NEAR TERM /THROUGH FRIDAY/...
LATEST RUC AND NAM RUNS DEVELOP GOOD LLVL CONVERGENCE (1000-850 MB
LAYER) ACROSS THE UPSTATE AND UP INTO THE LEE SLOPES OF THE NC MTNS
AND FOOTHILLS. LATEST TERMINAL DOPPLER RADAR IMAGERY FROM TCLT SHOWS
DEEP LAYER NNE FLOW...WHILE FLOW OVER THE THE WESTERN PART OF THE
UPSTATE IS MORE WESTERLY. THEREFORE IT LOOKS LIKE THE NAM AND RUC
WIND FIELDS ARE VERIFYING WELL SO FAR. AS A RESULT...I/LL UP POPS
ACROSS THE UPSTATE AND INTO THE NC MTNS AND WRN FOOTHILLS...WHILE
DROPPING THEM A BIT IN THE I-77 CORRIDOR OF NC.
THERE HAS BEEN ABUNDANT MID LEVEL CLOUD COVER THIS MORNING AS THE
AREA OF DEEP LAYER RH THAT HAS BEEN TEASING US JUST TO THE WEST THE
PAST COUPLE DAYS HAS FINALLY OVERSPREAD A GOOD BIT OF THE FORECAST
AREA. MOIST 12 UTC SOUNDINGS SHOULD YIELD QUITE A BIT OF CONVECTIVE
ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF A MID LEVEL SHORT WAVE MOVING OVER
ERN TN ATTM...EVEN WITHOUT FULL SUN. HOWEVER...THE MORE HEATING WE
SEE...THE MORE WIDESPREAD WL BE THE CONVECTTION.
WITH APPROACHING FRONT EXPECT CONVECTION TO CONTINUE OVERNIGHT
BEFORE TAPERING OFF SOMEWHAT TOWARD DAYBREAK. MORNING LOWS WILL
SETTLE AROUND 70 PIEDMONT...UPPER 50S TO MID 60S MTNS.
&&
.SHORT TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/...
A WEAK UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL LINGER OVER THE EASTERN GULF STATES
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...WHILE AN UPPER TROUGH TO THE NORTH
DEAMPLIFIES. THE SURFACE REFLECTION OF THIS LOW IS DEPICTED BY THE
MODELS CLOSE TO THE GULF COAST. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY SOUTH
INTO THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT...INTRODUCING AN EASTERLY UPSLOPE FLOW
INTO HIGHER TERRAIN THAT PERSISTS THROUGH SUNDAY BEFORE THE BOUNDARY
AND ITS ASSOCIATED MOISTURE MOVE WELL SOUTH OF THE AREA. CHANCE POPS
WILL BE CARRIED WITH DAYTIME HEATING...MAINLY ALONG THE BLUE
RIDGE...WITH SLIGHT CHANCE POPS EACH NIGHT. TEMPERATURES WILL TREND
FROM JUST ABOVE NORMAL SATURDAY TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL SUNDAY AS
THE COOLER AIR MASS EDGES SOUTH.
&&
.LONG TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/...
THE EXTENDED PERIOD FEATURES THE PROGRESSION OF AN EAST COAST UPPER
TROUGH...FOLLOWED BY THE AMPLIFICATION OF AN UPPER RIDGE OVER THE
SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL APPALACHIANS. A STATIONARY FRONT WILL BE
LOCATED ALONG THE EASTERN GULF COAST FROM MONDAY THROUGH
WEDNESDAY...WITH A SURFACE RIDGE CENTERED OFF THE MID ATLANTIC COAST
EXTENDING OVER OUR AREA. INITIALLY MOISTURE WILL BE CONCENTRATED
ALONG THE GULF COAST AS AN UPPER LEVEL COL BETWEEN THE TROUGH AND
RIDGE KEEPS ANY ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE OVER THE BOUNDARY TO OUR SOUTH.
POPS WILL NOT BE CARRIED EARLY IN THE EXTENDED FORECAST. AS THE
UPPER RIDGE AMPLIFIES...A WEAK SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL TRANSPORT
MOISTURE NORTH OVER THE SURFACE RIDGE...INCREASING CLOUDS AND
SUPPORTING SMALL POPS WITH TIME. BY THURSDAY THE FRONT WASHES
OUT...BUT A CONTINUED EASTERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL HELP OFFSET
TEMPERATURES GAINS ASSOCIATED WITH HEIGHT RISES UNDER THE UPPER
RIDGE.
&&
.AVIATION /19Z THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/...
SHRA AND TSTMS SHUD BE FAIRLY WIDESPREAD THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
AND I HAVE VCTS AT ALL TAF SITES AT VARIOUS TIME OVER THE NEXT 6
HORUS OR SO. PREVAILING FLOW ACROSS THE REGION IS NE ATTM...AND THIS
GENERAL FLOW SHOULD CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT 24 HRS...THOUGH WINDS WILL
BE VERY LIGHT OVERNIGHT. PATCHY LOW CLOUDS ARE CERTAINLY
POSSIBLE...BUT FORCING IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO ME TO INCLUDE
ANYTHING IN THE TAFS. AS FOR VSBYS...HAVE MOST SITES GOING DOWN LATE
WITH MVFR FOG/HAZE...SIMILAR TO THE PAST FEW NIGHTS. HOWEVER...ANY
SITES THAT SEE APPRECIABLE RAINFALL WILL LIKELY FALL MUCH MORE
OVERNIGHT.
AVIATION OUTLOOK...THRU WED. SCT TSTMS POSSIBLE FRI-SAT AS A FRONT
MOVES SLOWLY ACROSS THE CWA. FRONT IS EXPECTED TO STALL S OF THE
AREA SUN...WITH LITTLE CHANCE OF CONVECTION MON-WED. MVFR MORNING
FOG AND HAZE POSSIBLE EACH DAY...EVEN BEHIND THE FRONT...WITH IFR
FOG POSSIBLE AT KAVL.
&&
.GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
GA...NONE.
NC...AIR QUALITY ACTION DAY UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR NCZ036-
057-069>072-082.
SC...NONE.
&&
SYNOPSIS...JAT
NEAR TERM...MCAVOY
SHORT TERM...JAT
LONG TERM...JAT
AVIATION...MCAVOYHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 303 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035-037-048>053-056-058-059- 062>065-068-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-311915- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER-DAVIE- MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA-GRAHAM- NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON- CLEVELAND-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL-BURKE MOUNTAINS- GREATER BURKE-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL- RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS-EASTERN POLK- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 303 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING...WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. NCZ036-057-069>072-082-311915- IREDELL-ROWAN-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC- 303 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007 ...AIR QUALITY ACTION DAY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. AIR QUALITY ACTION DAY. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING...WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. 07
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 404 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007 NCZ033-302100- AVERY- 404 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEAST AVERY COUNTY THROUGH 500 PM EDT... AT 402 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF SEVEN DEVILS...OR 6 MILES EAST OF NEWLAND. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY...BUT DRIFTING TO THE SOUTH SOUTHWEST AT ABOUT 5 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... NEWLAND BY 500 PM EDT. SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE...THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. KRENTZ
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 406 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007 SCZ005-010-302100- ANDERSON-GREATER PICKENS- 406 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN ANDERSON AND SOUTHEASTERN PICKENS COUNTIES THROUGH 500 PM EDT... AT 402 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF LIBERTY...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PICKENS. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. ARK
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 413 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007 SCZ007-302115- SPARTANBURG- 413 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL SPARTANBURG COUNTY THROUGH 515 PM EDT... AT 406 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SPARTANBURG...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... PACOLET BY 515 PM EDT. WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. KRENTZ
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
513 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0312 PM TSTM WND DMG GREENVILLE 34.84N 82.37W
08/30/2007 GREENVILLE SC FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN ON RUTHERFORD ROAD
&&
KRENTZSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 539 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007 NCZ057-072-302215- CABARRUS-ROWAN- 539 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN CABARRUS AND SOUTHERN ROWAN COUNTIES THROUGH 615 PM EDT... AT 535 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRANITE QUARRY...OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF SALISBURY. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... CHINA GROVE BY 615 PM EDT. WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. ARK
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 546 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007 SCZ009-013-014-302215- CHESTER-UNION-YORK- 546 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CHESTER...EASTERN UNION AND SOUTHEASTERN YORK COUNTIES THROUGH 615 PM EDT... AT 543 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCK HILL TO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF CARLISLE. THESE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR... CHESTER BY 615 PM EDT. WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. ARK
The Greer radar (KGSP), 162 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:04 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees and power lines blown down, and a power pole blown down over Enochville Rd.
Power lines blown down on Stokes Ferry Rd near Granite Quarry along with 2 to 3 inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, August 2007
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: 58131, 58132.