A thunderstorm produced a little wind and lightning damage over the western piedmont of North Carolina.
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The episode as NWS GSP wrote it up.
A thunderstorm produced a little wind and lightning damage over the western piedmont of North Carolina.
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 8, 7:01 PM EST, 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 801 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA SATURDAY AND STALL OVER OR JUST SOUTH OF THE AREA SUNDAY. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD MONDAY BEFORE ANOTHER WEAK FRONT MOVES IN BY MID WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH SATURDAY/... AS OF 800 PM...WILL DO ANOTHER UPDATE SHORTLY...AS THIS ONE WAS MAINLY FOR THE 00Z TAFS. A SHORTWAVE IS CROSSING THE CWFA THIS EVENING...AND HAS PROVIDED ENUF FORCING TO GENERATE A CONSOLIDATING LINE OF MAINLY MODERATE TO STRONG STORMS ALIGNED JUST EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE SOUTH ACRS THE GSP METRO AREA TO ABBEVILLE SC. THE NEXT UPDATE WILL BE TO BETTER REFLECT THE TRENDS IN POP/WX/T/TD ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LINE. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... AT 1 PM EDT...AN UPPER TROUGH AXIS WILL CROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS TONIGHT AND REACH THE EAST COAST ON SATURDAY... WHILE A WELL DEFINED SHORTWAVE MOVES THROUGH THE BASE OF THIS TROUGH. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH FROM THE OH RIVER VALLEY...TO INTO OUR AREA TONIGHT. FORCING ASSOCIATED WITH THE SHORTWAVE AND THE FRONT...COMBINED WITH DEEP MOISTURE SOUTH OF THE FRONT...WILL SUPPORT LIKELY POPS THIS EVENING. WITH INCREASED WIND SHEAR ASSOCIATED WITH THE TROUGH...ORGANIZED CONVECTION IS POSSIBLE...SOME OF WHICH MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. ALTHOUGH FREEZING LEVELS ARE RATHER HIGH...LARGE HAIL CANNOT BE RULED OUT. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH RICH MOISTURE OVER THE AREA...BUT MODERATE FLOW ALOFT SHOULD KEEP CELLS MOVING...AND VEERING FLOW ALOFT THIS EVENING SHOULD LIMIT TRAINING. ONE HOUR FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE IS RUNNING 2 TO 3 INCHES...AND ALTHOUGH THIS MAY BE REACHED IN ISOLATED LOCATION... NO FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS PLANNED AT THIS TIME. CONVECTION WILL DIMINISH LATER THIS EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING...BUT AS LOW LEVEL FLOW VEERS...UPSLOPE FLOW SHOWERS CAN BE EXPECTED TO PERSIST ALONG THE TN BORDER OVERNIGHT. MINIMUM TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOVE NORMAL IN A MOIST AIR MASS. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH OF OUR AREA TOMORROW MORNING...MEANING THAT FORCING AND THE DEEPEST MOISTURE WILL NOT COINCIDE WITH THE BEST HEATING OF THE DAY. WITH THAT IN MIND...ONLY CHANCE POPS WILL BE CARRIED ON SATURDAY...WITH THE MAIN FOCUS SHIFTING TO THE PIEDMONT BY AFTERNOON...WHERE THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL EXIST. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL RUIN SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL AS HEIGHTS BEGIN TO RISE IN THE WAKE OF THE UPPER TROUGH. && .SHORT TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/... AS OF 205 PM FRIDAY...MODELS REMAIN IN DECENT AGREEMENT IN BUILDING AN UPPER RIDGE OVER THE AREA SUN AND MONDAY. HOWEVER...THE MDLS DISAGREE ON WHERE THE WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY STALLS AND THE AMOUNT OF LOW LEVEL ELY MOIST FLOW ACROSS THE AREA. THE NAM IS THE DRIEST PUSHING THE BOUNDARY FARTHER SOUTH...BUT STILL KEEPS MOISTURE AND LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE FROM THE UPPER SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY INTO THE MTNS. THE GFS AND SREF KEEP THE BOUNDARY FARTHER NORTH WITH MORE MOISTURE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. HAVE GONE WITH A BLEND KEEPING CHC POP CONFINED TO THE WRN UPSTATE...NE GA AND THE SRN MTN/FOOTHILLS OF NC WITH ISOLATED POP ELSEWHERE FOR SUN. WENT WITH SLIGHT CHC POP ALL AREAS MONDAY...BUT THIS MAY BE TOO HIGH OUTSIDE OF THE MTNS AND UPPER SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY. POP WILL RETAIN A DIURNAL TREND. ABOVE NORMAL HIGHS SUNDAY GO WELL ABOVE NORMAL MONDAY WITH RISING HEIGHTS. LOWS REMAIN NEARLY STEADY AT NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... AS OF 150 PM FRIDAY...UPPER RIDGE OVER THE AREA BEGINS TO RETROGRADE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD AS A TROF FORMS OFF THE EAST COAST. THIS PUTS OUR AREA IN A WEAK NWLY FLOW. THIS ALLOWS WEAK SHORT WAVES TO DROP DOWN TOWARD THE AREA PUSHING A FRONT IN FROM THE NW ON TUE. THE GFS AND CANADIAN TRY TO PUSH THE FRONT SOUTH OF THE AREA WED AND KEEP IT THERE THU AND FRI AS DRY HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE NORTH. THE ECMWF STALLS THE FRONT OVER THE AREA WED AND ONLY PUSHES IT TO THE SRN CWFA FOR THU WITH SOME DRIER AIR BUILDING IN FROM THE N FRI. THERE IS ALWAYS A QUESTION HOW FAR SOUTH A FRONT CAN GO THIS TIME OF YEAR...SO HAVE TRENDED TOWARD THE ECMWF SOLN. THIS MEANS A MAINLY DIURNAL POP TREND. WITH BEST CHC WEST TUE AND FRI AND CHC ALL AREAS WED AND THU. WELL ABOVE NORMAL HIGHS TUE SLOWLY FALL TO NEAR NORMAL FOR THU AND FRI AS HEIGHTS FALL. LOWS FOLLOW A SIMILAR TREND. && .AVIATION /00Z SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... AT KCLT...STILL PLENTY OF STORMS NEAR THE TERMINAL...SO I WILL HAVE A TEMPO FOR TS AND SOME RA AND GUSTY WINDS FOR FIRST HOUR OF 00Z TAF. AFTER THAT...ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS TO THE WEST MAY AFFECT THE TERMINAL LATER THIS EVENING...SO I WILL KEEP CB MENTION FOR A FEW HOURS. THINGS SHUD WIND DOWN BEHIND THAT LINE BY 06Z. AS FAR AS STRATUS...FOG/HAZE/SMOKE LATER TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY...I MAY DO AN AMENDMENT TO ADD SOME RESTRICTIONS. GUIDANCE WAS NOT VERY IMPRESSED...BUT GIVEN ALL THE RAIN AND CONTINUED WEAK LLVL FLOW...THINK THERE WILL BE FOG AND STRATUS AROUND SATURDAY MORNING. BY MIDDAY...BACK TO VFR WITH SCATTERED SHRA/TSRA AGAIN...BUT COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO BE LOWER THAN LAST FEW DAYS. SO NO CB OR SHRA MENTION AT THIS TIME. NELY WIND BEHIND A SLOW-MOVING COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED...BUT SOME OF THE GUIDANCE KEEPS WINDS SELY. ELSEWHERE...AT TIME OF 00Z TAF ISSUANCE...TS WAS AFFECTING GMU/GSP/HKY...BUT THINGS SHUD PUSH OFF TO THE EAST OF THIS LINE BY 01Z. THERE IS STILL SOME CHC OF CONVECTION FOR THE REST OF THE EVENING...SO WILL KEEP A MENTION OF CB. BY 06Z...SHUD BE FAIRLY QUIET...BUT MOISTURE OF THE RAIN AND LIGHT FLOW AHEAD OF A SLOW-MOVING COLD FRONT WILL ALLOW FOR PATCHY FOG AND STRATUS TO DEVELOP AGAIN OVERNIGHT. KAVL AND KHKY HAVE THE HIGHEST CHC OF FOG...BUT MAY NEED TO AMEND FOR GMU/GSP WHERE RAIN IS CURRENTLY FALLING. WINDS WILL VEER FROM SW THIS EVENING TO NW BY DAWN...AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THOUGH FROM THE NORTH. KAND WILL BE THE EXCEPTION...WITH WESTERLY WINDS REMAINING SOUTH OF THE FRONT. CONVECTION SATURDAY WILL BE MOST LIKELY NEAR THE FRONT AT KAND AND KGMU...BUT CONFIDENCE IS TOO LOW TO CARRY CB. OUTLOOK...A STALLED COLD FRONT ACROSS THE AREA ON SUNDAY IS EXPECTED TO PUSH SOUTH ON MONDAY. AFTERNOON CONVECTIVE RESTRICTIONS POSSIBLE...FOLLOWED BY MORNING FOG RESTRICTIONS WHERE RAIN FELL THE DAY BEFORE. EXPECT SLIGHTLY DRIER CONDITIONS BY MONDAY. AN EXPERIMENTAL AVIATION FORECAST CONSISTENCY TABLE SHOWING THE PERCENTAGE OF GUIDANCE MEMBERS AGREEING WITH THE SCHEDULED ISSUANCE CATEGORY IS AVAILABLE AT WEATHER.GOV/GSP/AVIATION/AVIATION.PHP#TABLE && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...RWH NEAR TERM...ARK/JAT SHORT TERM...RWH LONG TERM...RWH AVIATION...JAT
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 325 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-091930- 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- 325 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE EVENING. AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL DEVELOP WITH LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE. A FEW SEVERE STORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE... WITH DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. .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 LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
758 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011
NCZ036-057-069-071-072-090030-
CABARRUS-IREDELL-LINCOLN-MECKLENBURG-ROWAN-
758 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN LINCOLN...NORTHERN
MECKLENBURG...NORTHWESTERN CABARRUS...SOUTHEASTERN IREDELL AND
SOUTHWESTERN ROWAN COUNTIES THROUGH 830 PM EDT...
AT 758 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF LAKE NORMAN...OR 16 MILES EAST
OF LINCOLNTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
LAKE NORMAN...
CORNELIUS...
DAVIDSON...
MOORESVILLE...
ENOCHVILLE...
PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
LAT...LON 3537 8098 3538 8098 3540 8096 3540 8101
3553 8108 3556 8103 3555 8097 3560 8093
3570 8070 3550 8058
HGSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 801 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011 SCZ007-012-013-090030- LAURENS-SPARTANBURG-UNION- 801 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHERN LAURENS...SOUTHEASTERN SPARTANBURG AND WESTERN UNION COUNTIES THROUGH 830 PM EDT... AT 800 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES WEST OF WOODRUFF TO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF HICKORY TAVERN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR... WOODRUFF... LAURENS... ENOREE... CLINTON... PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. LAT...LON 3476 8171 3444 8182 3445 8223 3476 8211 HG
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
803 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011
NCZ035-036-056-090030-
ALEXANDER-CATAWBA-IREDELL-
803 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ALEXANDER...NORTHERN CATAWBA AND
NORTHWESTERN IREDELL COUNTIES THROUGH 830 PM EDT...
AT 803 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF BETHLEHEM...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF TAYLORSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
ELLENDALE...
TAYLORSVILLE...
STONY POINT...
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. WATER
LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE...THEREFORE SEEK
HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS.
LAT...LON 3589 8085 3575 8131 3580 8134 3589 8133
3592 8135 3594 8134 3604 8110 3603 8108
3607 8098 3606 8095
HGSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
814 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011
NCZ068-508-SCZ007-008-013-090100-
CHEROKEE-CLEVELAND-GREATER RUTHERFORD-SPARTANBURG-UNION-
814 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CHEROKEE...CLEVELAND...EASTERN
SPARTANBURG...NORTHWESTERN UNION AND SOUTHEASTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTIES
THROUGH 900 PM EDT...
AT 814 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ALEXANDER MILLS TO
COWPENS TO 4 MILES EAST OF WOODRUFF...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
BOSTIC...
ELLENBORO...
PACOLET...
BOILING SPRINGS NC...
POLKVILLE...
JONESVILLE...
PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS.
LAT...LON 3467 8202 3469 8203 3501 8190 3535 8195
3551 8151 3540 8144 3533 8136 3529 8136
3526 8132 3516 8134 3517 8136 3514 8140
3505 8141 3503 8149 3486 8146 3466 8200
HGSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
816 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011
SCZ007-012-013-019-090045-
GREENWOOD-LAURENS-SPARTANBURG-UNION-
816 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT LAURENS...NORTHERN GREENWOOD...
SOUTHEASTERN SPARTANBURG AND WESTERN UNION COUNTIES THROUGH 845 PM
EDT...
AT 816 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ENOREE TO 4 MILES
WEST OF GREENWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
GREENWOOD...
LAKE GREENWOOD...
CROSS HILL...
CLINTON...
PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THESE STORMS.
LAT...LON 3416 8224 3423 8225 3466 8200 3483 8154
3434 8181 3430 8189 3422 8192 3421 8194
3419 8192 3411 8227
HGSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
825 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011
NCZ036-037-090100-
DAVIE-IREDELL-
825 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN IREDELL AND
NORTHERN DAVIE COUNTIES THROUGH 900 PM EDT...
AT 825 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF HARMONY...OR 12 MILES NORTH OF
STATESVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
FARMINGTON...
DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3585 8084 3600 8096 3606 8085 3605 8050
3605 8049 3607 8046 3602 8041
HGThe Greer radar (KGSP), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:24 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Part of the roof was blown off an old, vacant building and a few trees were blown down in the McBrayer Homestead Rd area.
Lightning struck a home on Wall Ave, starting a fire that damaged the roof and attic.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, July 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: 340193, 340192.