An isolated severe storm affected the western North Carolina Piedmont during the afternoon hours.
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An isolated severe storm affected the western North Carolina Piedmont during the afternoon 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 Jul 27, 1:52 PM EST, 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 252 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO DISSIPATE AS IT APPROACHES OUR AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST ON MONDAY. ANOTHER WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST OVER THE CAROLINAS DURING MID WEEK AND STALL OUT SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA LATER IN THE WEEK. ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL THEN PUSH ITS WAY SOUTH AND TOWARD THE CAROLINAS NEXT WEEKEND. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT/... THE BEST COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING SHOULD BE WITHIN THE BETTER INSTABILITY ACROSS THE CENTRAL/EASTERN CAROLINAS. HOWEVER...BOUNDARY LAYER CONVERGENCE AND MODERATE INSTABILITY WILL YIELD ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE GSP CWFA AS WELL. IN FACT...WE/VE SEEN A COUPLE OF CELLS DEVELOP WITHIN THE PAST FEW MINUTES ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE IN NORTH CAROLINA. A COUPLE OF SEVERE STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT...BUT WITH FREEZING LEVELS AROUND 15 KFT...A HIGH REFLECTIVITY CORE WILL HAVE TO EXTEND TO AROUND 35 KFT FOR LARGE HAIL TO OCCUR. ALSO...THE AIR IN THE SUB-CLOUD LAYER IS NOT ESPECIALLY DRY (DEWPOINT DEPRESSIONS OF 15-20 DEGREES)...WHILE WIND SHEAR IS MODERATELY STRONG...SO IT APPEARS DAMAGING WIND WILL ONLY BE A CONCERN IF CONVECTION ORGANIZES ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES... WHICH DOESN/T SEEM VERY LIKELY. WHATEVER CONVECTION DOES GET GOING SHOULD PUSH EAST OF THE CWFA BY MID-EVENING. DRIER AIR WILL EXIST ACROSS THE AREA ON MONDAY IN THE WAKE OF THE WEAK COLD FRONT. IN FACT...THE MODELS ARE GENERATING LITTLE IN THE WAY OF INSTABILITY EXCEPT ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN FRINGE OF THE FORECAST AREA...WHILE THE NAM DESTABILIZES THE ATM OVER THE SOUTHWEST MTNS DURING THE AFTERNOON. WE HAVE ALTERED TOMORROW AFTERNOON/S SLIGHT CHANCES TO REFLECT THIS DISTRIBUTION OF INSTABILITY. && .SHORT TERM /TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... AS OF 245 PM SUNDAY... SLIGHT CHANCE POPS SOUTHERN AND WESTERN ZONES WILL BE CARRIED INTO MONDAY EVENING WITH GRADUAL DECREASE TO NO POPS WITH LOSS OF DIURNAL HEATING. SURFACE PATTERN ON TUESDAY WILL BE DOMINATED BY BERMUDA HIGH CENTERED WELL OFFSHORE WITH AXIS OF HIGH WESTWARD INTO GULF OF MEXICO. RESULT WILL BE A SOUTHWEST WIND FLOW ACROSS MOST OF SOUTHEASTERN STATES. WILL INCREASE POPS INTO LOW CHANCE CATEGORY AS A NOD TOWARD NAM WHICH INCREASES MEAN R.H. IN WEAKLY CONFLUENT SURFACE WIND FLOW. BOTH GFS AND SREF SHOW WEAK LEE TROUGH ACROSS PIEDMONT BY LATE IN DAY WEDNESDAY... BUT WILL CARRY HIGHEST AFTERNOON POPS OVER MOUNTAINS WHERE HEATING IS MOST LIKELY TO TRIGGER CONVECTION. GUIDANCE INDICATES BASIC SURFACE FEATURES ON WEDNESDAY WILL ONCE AGAIN CONSIST OF BERMUDA HIGH EXTENDING INTO SOUTHEASTERN STATES WITH LEE TROUGH ACROSS PIEDMONT. FLOW ALOFT REMAINS RATHER WEAK FROM THE NORTHWEST... BUT GFS DEPICTS 500 MB SHORT WAVE APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST. SHORT WAVE WILL PROBABLY BE A LITTLE TOO FAR AWAY AT END OF DAY TO HAVE MUCH AFFECT ON CWA... SO WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS THAT ARE DRIVEN BASICALLY BY DIURNAL HEATING. TEMPERATURES FORECASTS FOLLOW THE GFS MOS GUIDANCE WHICH HAS DAYTIME HIGHS IN LOW AND MID 90S EXCEPT 80S IN MOUNTAINS. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... AS OF 2 PM SUNDAY...BROAD AND WEAK UPPER LEVEL TROF IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ITS SLOW TREK ACROSS THE NORTHEASTERN STATES THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. ONCE THIS TROF FINALLY MOVES OFF THE EASTERN SEABOARD...A SUBSTANTIAL RIDGE WILL BUILD ACROSS THE UPPER PLAINS AND MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD. THURSDAY STILL APPEARS TO BE THE MOST ACTIVE DURING THE PERIOD WITH A STRONG SHORT WAVE TRAVERSING THE AREA. INSTABILITY SHOULD REMAIN FAIRLY HIGH FOR MOST OF THE PERIOD AND PROVIDE FOR AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE MID AND UPPER LEVELS DO DRY OUT FRI AND SAT AS A SUBSIDENCE PATTERN SETS UP AND DYNAMIC FORCING LOOKS POOR. TEMPS ARE STILL EXPECTED TO BE A FEW DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL DUE IN PART TO THE UNCHANGING AIRMASS. AMPLE BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE SHOULD ALSO HELP KEEP MIN TEMPS A COUPLE DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AS WELL. && .AVIATION /19Z SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... THE ATMOSPHERE HAS BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON...AND VISIBLE SATELLITE INDICATES QUITE A BIT OF TOWERING CU DEVELOPING...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE...AND ALONG/EAST OF THE I-77 CORRIDOR. AS SUCH...IT APPEARS THAT KHKY AND KCLT STAND THE BEST CHANCE OF EXPERIENCING A TSRA THIS AFTERNOON...SO VCTS WILL BE CARRIED THERE. ELSEWHERE...CONVECTION SHOULD BE MORE ISOLATED...SO A CB CLOUD GROUP APPEARS TO BE MORE APPROPRIATE AT THOSE TERMINALS. CONVECTION SHOULD CLEAR THE AREA BY EARLY EVENING...LEAVING MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES THROUGH 18Z MONDAY. SOME EARLY MORNING MVFR WILL BE POSSIBLE AT KAVL. OUTLOOK...THE AXIS OF A LONG WAVE TROF WILL REMAIN NEAR THE ATLANTIC COAST THROUGH TUESDAY. WEAK DISTURBANCES WITHIN THE TROF MAY TRIGGER AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. A BACK DOOR COLD FRONT WILL SLIDE TOWARDS THE FORECAST AREA WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD INCREASE EACH DAY. RICH LLVL MOISTURE MAY RESULT IN PATCHY FOG EACH MORNING. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...JPT NEAR TERM...JDL SHORT TERM...LGL LONG TERM...JPT AVIATION...JDL
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 556 AM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-281000- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER- IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA- ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA- HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC- 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- 556 AM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 85. ONE OR TWO OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LEVELS AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. IN ADDITION TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING HAIL AS LARGE AS PENNIES AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. KRENTZ
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 249 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 NCZ037-271915- DAVIE- 249 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT DAVIE COUNTY THROUGH 315 PM EDT... AT 249 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR FARMINGTON...OR 8 MILES NORTH OF MOCKSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... BERMUDA RUN BY 300 PM EDT. ADVANCE BY 315 PM EDT. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND 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. BSH
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:19 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Two trees were blown down near the intersection of LaQuinta Dr and Beauchamp Rd.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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