A storm produced a little wind damage and hail over northeast Georgia.
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The episode as NWS GSP wrote it up.
A storm produced a little wind damage and hail over northeast Georgia.
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 3, 2:25 PM EST, 1 hour earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 325 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK UPPER LEVEL TROF WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH MID WEEK AND SWING EAST BY FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL INTO THE WEEKEND. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... 1930 UTC UPDATE...POPS AND QPF HAVE BEEN INCREASED WHERE CONVECTION IS OCCURRING ALONG IN THE NC FOOTHILLS...AND IN THE SW NC MOUNTAINS. SKY COVER HAS BEEN ADJUSTED PER SATELLITE IMAGERY. AT 1430 EDT TUESDAY...SCATTERED CONVECTION HAS FIRED ACROSS THE MTNS THIS AFTERNOON AS EXPECTED. A COUPLE OF MARGINALLY SEVERE PULSE STORMS HAVE BEEN OBSERVED AND THIS TREND SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. ISOLATED CONVECTION HAS ALSO BEGUN FIRING IN THE HIGH THETA-E AIR OVER THE UPPER SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY. STORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING EXTREMELY SLOWLY...AND HEAVY RAINFALL MAY PROVE TO BE MORE OF A THREAT THAN SEVERE WEATHER. COVERAGE HAS ACTUALLY BECOME QUITE HIGH ALONG THE EASTERN ESCARPMENT...BUT AGAIN SLOW/QUASI-STATIONARY MOVEMENT MEANS THAT STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL NOT COVER MUCH REAL ESTATE...SO POPS WILL BE LIMITED TO HIGH CHANCE/PERHAPS THE LOW END OF THE LIKELY RANGE. OTHERWISE...WILL CONTINUE TO FORECAST SCATTERED ACTIVITY SPREADING INTO THE FOOTHILLS (ESP THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS) AS COLD POOLS FROM MTN CONVECTION MATURE. CONVECTION WILL DECREASE IN COVERAGE WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING IN THE WEAKLY SHEARED ENVIRONMENT...ALTHOUGH ISOLATED CONVECTION WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE BETTER MOISTURE ACROSS THE WESTERN ZONES THROUGH MUCH OF THE OVERNIGHT. MIN TEMPS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE ABOVE NORMAL IN THE MOIST AIR MASS...WITH POSSIBLE CONVECTIVE DEBRIS FURTHER INHIBITING COOLING. THERE DOESN/T APPEAR TO BE MUCH CHANGE IN THE OVERALL PATTERN FOR WEDNESDAY. THE FLOW ALOFT MAY BE A LITTLE STRONGER...AS SHORT WAVE TROUGH DROPS DOWN THE EASTERN SEABOARD W/IN THE NW FLOW ALOFT. THEREFORE...POPS WILL BE A LITTLE HIGHER FOR WED AFTERNOON...AS CELLS SHOULD ACTUALLY MOVE...AND THERE COULD EVEN BE SOME SMALL SCALE ORGANIZATION ALONG OUTFLOWS. TEMPS WILL REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL...BUT PERHAPS A DEGREE OR TWO COOLER THAN TUESDAY...AS HEIGHTS ALOFT FALL SLIGHTLY. && .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... AS OF 245 PM TUESDAY...MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW WEAK SHORT WAVES DROPPING S OVER THE AREA THU-FRI IN VERY LGT N FLOW ALOFT...WITH A LEE TROF AT THE SFC. WEAK UPPER FORCING COMBINED WITH LOW LVL CONVERGENCE...DAYTIME HEATING AND ABOVE AVG PRECIPITABLE WATER WILL MAINTAIN A CHANCE OF AFTN-EVE SHWRS/TSTMS BOTH DAYS. SHEAR WILL BE MINIMAL BUT CAPE RELATIVELY HIGH WITH THE MAIN THREAT DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN IN SLOW MOVG STORM CELLS. TEMPS WILL STAY ABOVE ABOVE AVG THRU THE PERIOD WITH HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 100-103 ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE I-85 CORRIDOR. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/... AS OF 100 PM TUESDAY...THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE CONTINUES TO DOMINATE THE WEATHER IN THE EARLY PART OF THE EXT. GOOD AGREEMENT IS HAD WITH THE RIDGE SLOWLY BREAKING DOWN AND RETROGRADING WHILE A BROAD L/W TROF ENCOMPASSES THE EAST COAST BY MON. AT THE SFC...A LEE TROF WILL BE MAINTAINED WHILE A BACK COLD FRONT SAGS SOUTH LATE SUN NIGHT AND MOST LIKELY BECOMES STATIONARY ACROSS THE SRN ZONES OR MIDLANDS THROUGH TUE. MODERATE TO HIGH LEVELS OF SFC BASED CAPE WILL BE GENERATED EACH AFTERNOON AS MAX TEMPS REACH A FEW DEGREES F ABOVE NORMAL IN A STAGNANT AND RELATIVELY HIGH LLVL TD ENVIRONMENT. MAX TEMPS MAY DROP TO NEAR NORMAL BY MON AND TUE AS H5 HEIGHTS FALL AND CLOUDINESS INCREASES. POPS WERE MAINTAINED AT CLIMO OVER THE WEEKEND...WITH POPS REACHING THE LOW CHANCE RANGE OUTSIDE THE MTNS MON AND TUE AS THE SFC BOUNDARY PROVIDES A MORE S/LY FOCUSING MECHANISM. && .AVIATION /20Z TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... AT KCLT...CONVECTION IS DEVELOPING OVER THE HIGH TERRAIN AS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...FLOW ALOFT IS VERY WEAK...AND IT MAY THEREFORE BE DIFFICULT TO GET ANY OF THIS CONVECTION INTO THE KCLT AREA LATER TODAY. NEVERTHELESS...THE CUMULUS FIELD IS STARTING TO GET HEALTHY IN THE VCNY...SO ISOLATED STORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP BY THIS EVENING...SO THE PROB30 HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A TEMPO FOR TS. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED. WINDS SHOULD REMAIN SW BEFORE BECOMING LIGHT/VRBL THIS EVENING...THEN RETURN TO THE WSW BY THE END OF THE PERIOD. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED CONVECTION IS FIRING OVER THE HIGH TERRAIN AS EXPECTED...BUT IS ALSO BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE UPPER SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY. DUE TO VERY WEAK FLOW ALOFT...STORMS ARE EXHIBITING VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT...SO IF THEY DO MAKE THEIR WAY TOWARD THE TERMINALS...IT/S GOING TO TAKE A WHILE. VCTS HAS BEEN INCLUDED AT ALL TERMINALS BY 20Z. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD...ALTHOUGH THE USUAL CAVEAT APPLIES OF FOG/STRATUS BEING POSSIBLE IN AREAS THAT RECEIVE SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL. OUTLOOK...AT LEAST SCATTERED AFTN/EVE SHRA/TSRA POTENTIAL EXPECTED EACH DAY THROUGH THE REST OF THE WEEK...WITH AREAS OF MORNING FOG/ STRATUS POSSIBLE...ESP IN THE MTN VALLEYS. 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 && .CLIMATE... RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES THAT WILL BE APPROACHED AND POSSIBLY EXCEEDED... AVL JULY 4TH 97 IN 1948 JULY 5TH 96 IN 1948 JULY 6TH 93 IN 1993 GSP JULY 4TH 100 IN 1993 JULY 5TH 98 IN 1993 JULY 6TH 100 IN 1993 CLT JULY 4TH 99 IN 1993 JULY 5TH 100 IN 1954 JULY 6TH 99 IN 1930 && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...SBK NEAR TERM...JAT/JDL SHORT TERM...RB LONG TERM...SBK AVIATION...JDL CLIMATE...RAB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 314 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-041915- 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- 314 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA AND CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE... WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH SLOW MOVING STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
316 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012
NCZ502-504-032000-
GREATER BURKE-GREATER CALDWELL-
316 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN BURKE AND SOUTHERN
CALDWELL COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM EDT...
AT 314 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GAMEWELL...OR 6 MILES NORTH
OF MORGANTON...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
PEOPLE IN EASTERN BURKE AND SOUTHERN CALDWELL COUNTIES...INCLUDING
THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
GAMEWELL...VALDESE...LAKE RHODHISS...RUTHERFORD COLLEGE...CONNELLY
SPRINGS AND HUDSON...
SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER THREATEN.
SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
LAT...LON 3592 8135 3589 8133 3580 8133 3558 8153
3577 8180 3588 8176 3595 8165 3595 8134
MOOREPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
331 PM EDT TUE JUL 03 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0200 PM TSTM WND DMG 6 NNW LAKE LURE 35.52N 82.25W
07/03/2012 BUNCOMBE NC TRAINED SPOTTER
MULTIPLE TREES BLOWN IN HALF. HAIL OF UNKNOWN SIZE.
&&
KRENTZPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
415 PM EDT TUE JUL 03 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0305 PM TSTM WND DMG 5 N MORGANTON 35.81N 81.70W
07/03/2012 BURKE NC 911 CALL CENTER
TREE DOWN NEAR CHESTERFIELD COMMUNITY AND ANOTHER DOWN ON
FOREST SERVICE LAND IN NORTHERN PART OF COUNTY.
&&
MOORESPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
418 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012
GAZ026-028-029-032100-
ELBERT-FRANKLIN-HART-
418 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN...SOUTHERN
HART AND WESTERN ELBERT COUNTIES THROUGH 500 PM EDT...
AT 415 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ROYSTON...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
CARNESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.
PEOPLE IN SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN...SOUTHERN HART AND WESTERN ELBERT
COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
ROYSTON...CANON...VANNA AND BOWMAN...
SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER THREATEN.
SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
LAT...LON 3409 8300 3412 8306 3415 8307 3417 8311
3420 8310 3423 8308 3426 8313 3423 8317
3424 8320 3439 8317 3437 8288
MOORESPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 420 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012 GAZ010-017-018-SCZ001-032100- HABERSHAM-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-RABUN-STEPHENS- 420 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN HABERSHAM...NORTHWESTERN STEPHENS...SOUTHERN RABUN AND WESTERN OCONEE COUNTIES THROUGH 500 PM EDT... AT 419 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR TURNERVILLE...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLARKESVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PEOPLE IN EASTERN HABERSHAM...NORTHWESTERN STEPHENS...SOUTHERN RABUN AND WESTERN OCONEE COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... TURNERVILLE...TALLULAH FALLS AND TOCCOA... SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3471 8313 3453 8334 3470 8355 3481 8347 MOORE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
423 PM EDT TUE JUL 03 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0110 PM HAIL 5 SSE NEWLAND 36.03N 81.89W
07/03/2012 E1.00 INCH AVERY NC PUBLIC
QUARTER SIZED HAIL ON QUARRY ROAD AT PINOLA. MARBLE SIZED
HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED ON PRITCHARD ROAD. STRONG WIND
GUSTS CAUSED SOME WIND ISSUES SUCH AS BLOWN OVER POTTED
PLANTS AT VAUGHANS GREENHOUSE.
&&
OUTLAWThe Greer radar (KGSP), 116 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:23 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Multiple trees were blown down in the Turnerville community.
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