A few storms developed over extreme northeast Georgia during the late afternoon hours. One of the storms produced wind damage.
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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 episode as NWS GSP wrote it up.
A few storms developed over extreme northeast Georgia during the late afternoon hours. One of the storms produced wind damage.
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 5, 4:22 PM EST, 43 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 522 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK SURFACE FRONT WILL REMAIN STATIONARY ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA AND THE CAROLINAS INTO THE WEEKEND. EXPECT THE WEATHER TO BE UNSETTLED THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH SATURDAY/... AS OF 515 PM...WIDESPREAD CONVECTION HAS PROPAGATED SOUTH OF THE CWFA...CLOSER TO REGION OF LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG WEAK IN SITU CAD BOUNDARY. LIGHT STRATIFORM RAIN LINGERS ACROSS THE EASTERN UPSTATE...WHILE ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED CONVECTION IS FIRING IN THE MORE UNSTABLE AIR MASS ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND THE UPPER SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY. MEANWHILE...THERE IS A SHARP GRADIENT IN MOISTURE VALUES/PWATS ORIENTED FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE CWFA. WITH THIS IN MIND...POPS HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED TO FEATURE LIKELY ACROSS THE EASTERN PIEDMONT AREAS...WITH SOLID CHANCES ACROSS WESTERN AREAS...AND SLIGHT CHANCES ACROSS THE NORTHERN MTNS AND NORTHERN FOOTHILLS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING. OVERNIGHT...GUIDANCE IN AGREEMENT ON OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES CONTINUING TO KICK OFF CONVECTION...AS FCST SNDGS SHOW ELEVATED INSTBY THRU NIGHT. MCS ACTIVITY UPSTREAM ACRS MISSOURI AND THE TN VLY WILL REACH THE SRN APPALACHIANS BY DAYBREAK SATURDAY. STORM MOTIONS WILL REMAIN VERY SLOW...SO A SLGT HEAVY RAIN THREAT WILL CONTINUE...BUT NOT HIGH ENUF TO WARRANT A FLOOD WATCH. DEBRIS CLOUDINESS FROM THIS CONVECTION WILL START STREAMING IN OVERNIGHT...BUT PROBABLY NOT IN TIME TO PREVENT WIDESPREAD STRATUS DEVELOPMENT IN WEAK SELY LLVL FLOW. TEMPS WILL BE MAINLY IN THE 70S OVERNIGHT UNDER CLOUD COVER (UPPER 60S HIGH TERRAIN). SATURDAY...AS WEAK SHORTWAVE TRACKS ACRS THE CWFA...NUMEROUS SHWRS AND TSTMS WILL DEVELOP WITH VERY MOIST BL IN PLACE. SHEAR REMAIN WEAK...AND SLOW STORM MOTIONS WILL RESULT IN A HEAVY RAIN THREAT. HOWEVER...WITH SUCH WARM AND MOIST MID LVLS...SEVERE THREAT WILL BE LOW. VERY MOIST CONDITIONS...EARLY CONVECTIVE INITIATION AND PLENTY OF CLOUD COVER WILL KEEP TEMPS DOWN SLIGHTLY...BUT STILL NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. && .SHORT TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/... AS OF 230 PM FRIDAY...GENERAL TROUGHINESS WILL PERSIST ALONG THE E COAST THROUGH THE PERIOD. UPSTREAM CONVECTION DEVELOPING OVER THE OH VALLEY SAT NIGHT AHEAD OF A WEAK COLD FRONT COULD MAKE A RUN TOWARD OR INTO THE FORECAST AREA ON SUNDAY. WILL MAINTAIN HIGHER CHC POPS WEST TO LOWER CHC EAST THROUGH SUNDAY. PIEDMONT TEMPS SHOULD WARM INTO THE MID TO UPPER 90S ON IMPROVING DOWNSLOPE FLOW. THE PERSISTENT NW FLOW WILL CONTINUE SUN NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. UPPER FORCING MAY IMPROVE ON MONDAY AS AN 80 KT JET PUSHES SE INTO THE OH VALLEY AND INCREASES UPPER DIVERGENCE ACROSS THE SE. DOWNSLOPE WARMING SHOULD YIELD PLENTY OF UPPER 90S TEMPS E OF THE MTNS MON AFTN. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... AS OF 225 PM FRIDAY...THE BROAD TROFINESS CONTINUES IN THE MEDIUM RANGE BRINGING TEMPERATURES THAT WILL BE CLOSER TO NORMAL. A WEAK SURFACE FRONT WILL DRIFT DOWN FROM THE NORTH IN MID WEEK WITH A CHANCE OF SHRA/TSRA OVER THE MOUNTAINS LATE TUESDAY AND MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS LATE WEDNESDAY. 700MB WIND SPEEDS WILL BE IN THE 20 TO 30 KT RANGE IN THE PREFRONTAL ENVIRONMENT WHICH WILL NOT BE MARGINAL FOR CONVECTIVE ENHANCEMENT. THE FRONT WILL SHIFT SOUTH OF THE AREA BY LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND DRIER AIR WILL MOVE IN FROM THE NORTH. TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOUT TWO CATEGORIES ABOVE NORMAL TUES AND WED AND DROP TO NEAR OR JUST ABOVE FOR THUR AND FRI BEING NORTH OF THE FRONT. && .AVIATION /22Z FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... AT KCLT...A CLUSTER OF TSTMS CONTINUES TO VERY SLOWLY WORK EASTWARD ACRS THE SRN NC PIEDMONT...WITH HEAVY RAIN AT THE TERMINAL AT TIME OF ISSUANCE. LINGERING TS WILL CONTINUE TO ABOUT 19Z...THEN SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS STORMS IN THE AREA WILL WARRANT CB MENTION INTO THE EVENING. OVERNIGHT...VERY MOIST CONDITIONS WILL RESULT IN A FAIRLY HIGH CHANCE OF VSBY AND CIG RESTRICTIONS THRU DAYBREAK SATURDAY. GUIDANCE IS NOT IN AGREEMENT ON DETAILS...BUT GIVEN THE WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN...LEANING TOWARD IFR SATURDAY MORNING. AN UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL CROSS THE REGION SATURDAY AFTN...WITH NUMEROUS SHWRS AND TSTMS DEVELOPING AGAIN...BUT WILL KEEP CB OUT FOR NOW. ELSEWHERE...WIDESPREAD CONVECTION ACRS THE PIEDMONT WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. FOR NOW...NO IMMINENT IMPACTS...SO JUST CB ATTM. WITH WIDESPREAD RAINFALL THIS AFTN/EVE...EXPECT FOG AND STRATUS TO DEVELOP OVERNIGHT AT ALL SITES. IT IS NOT A SLAM DUNK...HOWEVER AS DEBRIS CLOUDINESS FROM CONVECTION APPROACHING FROM THE WEST MAY LIMIT COOLING TO REALLY SOCK THE AREA IN...BUT STILL EXPECT AT LEAST SOME RESTRICTIONS THRU DAYBREAK SATURDAY. GUIDANCE NOT IN AGREEMENT ON DETAILS...SO ADJUSTMENTS WILL BE MADE WITH NEW GUIDANCE AND THE MONITORING OF TRENDS. AN UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL CROSS THE REGION SATURDAY AFTN...WITH NUMEROUS SHWRS AND TSTMS DEVELOPING AGAIN...BUT WILL KEEP CB OUT FOR NOW. OUTLOOK...MOISTURE ON EASTERLY FLOW WILL INCREASE THRU THE WEEKEND. RESTRICTIONS COULD LINGER INTO THE WEEKEND IN THE MOIST UPSLOPE FLOW. EXPECT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHWRS/TSTMS SATURDAY AFTN. MORE TYPICAL DIURNAL TSTMS EXPECTED FROM SUNDAY INTO NEXT WEEK. AN EXPERIMENTAL AVIATION FORECAST CONSISTENCY TABLE SHOWING THE PERCENTAGE OF GUIDANCE MEMBERS AGREEING WITH THE SCHEDULED ISSUANCE CATEGORY IS AVAILABLE AT FOLLOWING LINK (USE LOWER CASE)... WWW.WEATHER.GOV/GSP/AVIATION/TABLES.HTM && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...DEO NEAR TERM...ARK/JDL SHORT TERM...HG LONG TERM...DEO AVIATION...ARK
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 533 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-062145- 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- 533 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS...WITH ISOLATED STORMS CONTINUING OVERNIGHT. THE AIR MASS OVER THE REGION IS EXTREMELY MOIST WHILE WINDS ALOFT ARE VERY WEAK. THIS WILL RESULT IN SLOW MOVING STORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN URBAN AREAS. IN ADDITION TO THE FLOODING THREAT...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF DAMAGING WINDS THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF DAMAGING WINDS OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. LANE
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
433 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011
GAZ017-018-052100-
HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-
433 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN HABERSHAM AND
WESTERN STEPHENS COUNTIES THROUGH 500 PM EDT...
AT 431 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOUNT AIRY...OR 4 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF CLARKESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
TOCCOA...
DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3468 8352 3464 8326 3447 8333 3447 8338
3446 8341 3451 8359
RBSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
441 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011
NCZ064-SCZ001>003-005-052115-
GREATER PICKENS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS
MOUNTAINS-TRANSYLVANIA-
441 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN OCONEE...
NORTHWESTERN GREENVILLE...NORTHWESTERN PICKENS AND SOUTHERN
TRANSYLVANIA COUNTIES THROUGH 515 PM EDT...
AT 439 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ROSMAN TO 3 MILES
NORTHEAST OF SALEM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
SALEM...
ROCKY BOTTOM...
NINE TIMES...
DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THESE STORMS. A PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED.
LAT...LON 3525 8283 3508 8261 3473 8287 3476 8290
3478 8288 3481 8290 3479 8293 3491 8308
RBSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
509 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011
GAZ017-018-026-SCZ001-052145-
FRANKLIN-HABERSHAM-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-STEPHENS-
509 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN HABERSHAM...NORTHERN
FRANKLIN...STEPHENS AND WESTERN OCONEE COUNTIES THROUGH 545 PM EDT...
AT 504 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR TOCCOA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
EASTANOLEE...
MARTIN...
LAVONIA...
DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. A PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED.
LAT...LON 3460 8347 3472 8329 3460 8316 3459 8315
3458 8316 3456 8312 3449 8305 3444 8308
3431 8333
RBSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
543 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011
NCZ048-052-052215-
HAYWOOD-MADISON-
543 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN HAYWOOD AND
SOUTHWESTERN MADISON COUNTIES THROUGH 615 PM EDT...
AT 538 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF COVE CREEK...OR 14 MILES NORTH
OF WAYNESVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. A PERIOD OF
HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED.
LAT...LON 3578 8300 3579 8298 3571 8279 3569 8282
3570 8285 3567 8289 3564 8287 3552 8299
3566 8317 3579 8304
RBSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
556 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011
GAZ026-052245-
FRANKLIN-
556 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY
THROUGH 645 PM EDT...
AT 556 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF FRANKLIN SPRINGS...OR 7 MILES
SOUTH OF CARNESVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
ROYSTON...
PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS
DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS.
LAT...LON 3424 8326 3426 8329 3425 8333 3427 8334
3439 8318 3432 8309 3428 8310 3427 8312
3423 8317
HGSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
558 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011
NCZ048-052245-
MADISON-
558 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT MADISON COUNTY THROUGH 645 PM
EDT...
AT 555 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES WEST OF
FAUST TO LUCK...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
MARSHALL...
MARS HILL...
PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS. HEAVY RAINS MAY ALSO FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES
AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS.
LAT...LON 3594 8249 3591 8249 3590 8245 3582 8241
3580 8247 3580 8251 3573 8267 3573 8271
3569 8280 3570 8284 3569 8290 3574 8292
3575 8296 3579 8296 3598 8263
HGThe Greer radar (KGSP), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:03 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Multiple trees and large limbs were blown down between Carnesville and Bowersville.
Numerous trees and large limbs were blown down in the Franklin Springs and Royston area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, August 2011
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: 344584, 344585.