A hot, humid airmass resulted in more pulse severe storms over the North Carolina Mountains during the afternoon hours.
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The episode as NWS GSP wrote it up.
A hot, humid airmass resulted in more pulse severe storms over the North Carolina Mountains 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 6, 1:51 PM EST, 46 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 251 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2012 .SYNOPSIS... AN UPPER LEVEL HIGH WILL KEEP HOT TEMPERATURES AND AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. SOME RELIEF MAY BE ON THE WAY FOR NEXT WEEK AS A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO DROP DOWN FROM THE NORTHWEST ON SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. THE FRONT WILL BECOME STATIONARY ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE MIDDLE PART OF NEXT WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH SATURDAY/... AS OF 215 PM EDT...CURRENT VISIBLE SATELLITE IS SHOWING A WIDELY SCT CU FIELD CONTINUING TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. BEST COVERAGE IS CURRENTLY LIMITED TO THE HIGHER TERRAIN...BUT THAT SHOULD CHANGE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS AS THE LOW LVLS HEAT UP. TEMPS HAVE BEEN SLOWER TO RISE SO FAR TODAY WITH THE GOOD RAINFALL WE GOT YESTERDAY ACTING AS A BUFFER TO THE PERSISTENT UPPER RIDGE AND STRONG INSOLATION. BASED ON THIS TREND...I BUMPED MAX TEMPS DOWN A COUPLE OF DEGREES FROM THE PREVIOUS FCST HIGHS. GOING FOR A HIGH OF AROUND 96 FOR GSP AND AROUND 90 FOR KAVL. I ALSO TRIMMED POPS BACK ABOUT 5 TO 10% BUT KEPT A SOLID CHANCE OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND A SLIGHT CHANCE ELSEWHERE. ANOTHER CALM NIGHT IS IN STORE OVERNIGHT WITH WINDS BECOMING CALM TO LIGHT AND VRB. THE POTENTIAL IS THERE AGAIN FOR SOME MT VALLEY FOG EARLY TOMORROW MORNING IF TEMPS CAN DROP ENOUGH. OF COURSE...IF WE WIND UP NOT SEEING MUCH PRECIP TODAY AND TONIGHT...THE POTENTIAL FOR FOG WILL BE LOWER. FOR TOMORROW...THE UPPER RIDGE WILL FINALLY BEGIN TO SIGNIFICANTLY WEAKEN AND THE LARGE SCALE PATTERN WILL CHANGE. THERE IS STILL A SLIGHT TO SOLID CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON/EVENING TSRA...BUT THE OVERALL POPS ARE LOWER THAN THE PAST FEW DAYS. ANY MID TO UPPER LVL SUPPORT SHOULD ALSO BE LESS WITH MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOWING THE MID LVLS WARMING A BIT. HIGHS WILL BE IN THE UPPER 90S AGAIN BUT RELIEF IS IN SIGHT EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .SHORT TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/... AS OF 240 PM FRIDAY...UPPER RIDGE REMAINS OVER THE REGION SAT NIGHT-SUN...THEN WEAKENS SUN NIGHT-MON AS AN H5 SHORTWAVE TROF MOVES ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES TOWARD THE AREA. EVEN WITH A RIDGE OVERHEAD SUN...THE AREA DESTABILIZES WITH HEATING IN THE AFTN AND CAPE VALUES GET QUITE HIGH. WITHOUT MUCH SHEAR...ORGANIZED CONVECTION SHOULD BE MINIMAL BUT SCT LATE DAY SHWRS/TSTMS ARE STILL EXPECTED...MAINLY OVER THE MTNS WHERE LOW LVL CONVERGENCE WILL BE BEST. MODELS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT AT LEAST ISOLD CONVECTION SUN NIGHT AS UPPER FORCING IMPROVES WITH THE APPROACH OF WEAK IMPULSES AHEAD OF THE UPPER TROF. THEN POPS RAMP UP ON MON AS GULF MOISTURE IS PULLED UP OVER THE AREA AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING SHORTWAVE AND ASSOC SFC FRONT. LOW TEMPS WILL BE WELL ABOVE AVG THRU THE PD. HIGHS WILL BE IN THE U90S E OF THE MTNS SUN...THEN 5-8 DEG COOLER ON MON WITH LOWERING HEIGHTS AND INCREASING CLOUDS. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY/... AS OF 230 PM FRIDAY...THE LATEST MODELS CONTINUE TO INDICATE THAT A BROAD UPPER RIDGE OF HIGH OVER THE SOUTHEAST WILL BREAK DOWN BY MONDAY AS AN UPPER TROUGH DEVELOPS ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES REGION. A COLD FRONT OVER THE OHIO VALLEY IS PROGGED TO MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE APPALACHIANS BY LATE MONDAY AND STALLS OVER OUR FORECAST AREA THROUGH LATE NEXT WEEK. A PROLONGED WET WEATHER PATTERN IS EXPECTED AS UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE REMAINS OUR AREA ALONG WITH DEEPER MOISTURE BAND SETTLING ALONG THE FRONT THROUGH MUCH OF THE EXTENDED FORECAST PERIOD. TEMPERATURES WILL REMIAN 5-10 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL WITH HIGHS IN THE LOW TO MID 80S TUE INTO FRIDAY. && .AVIATION /19Z FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... AT KCLT...EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF BRIEF MVFR VISBY EARLY THIS EVENING IF CONVECTION CAN GET GOING. I INCLUDED A TEMPO GROUP FOR THIS FROM 22 TO 24Z WITH BKN CB. OTHER THAN THAT...WINDS SHOULD BE LIGHT S TO SELY BECOMING LIGHT AND VRB OVERNIGHT. TOMORROW SHOULD BE SIMILAR TO TODAY WITH ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON/EVENING TSRA AND WINDS OUT OF THE SW. ELSEWHERE...EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS THRU TAF PERIOD WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF VCTS AT ALL SITES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT IF CONVECTION CAN INITIATE. BEST CHANCE FOR TSRA WILL BE OVER KAVL AS LATEST MODEL SOUNDINGS ARE KEEPING DEWPTS HIGHER AND GENERATING MORE INSTABILITY THRU THE EVENING. KAVL COULD SEE A BRIEF PERIOD OF VALLEY FOG TOMORROW MORNING BETWEEN ABOUT 9 AND 12Z IF TEMPS DROP ENOUGH OVERNIGHT AND IF THEY RECEIVE ANY PRECIP. I AM THINKING THEY PROBABLY WONT GO BELOW VFR VISBY SO I DID NOT INCLUDE ANY MENTION IN THE TAF. OTHERWISE...WINDS WILL BE PREDOMINATELY FROM THE EAST WITH CALM CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT AND SWLY WINDS DEVELOPING AFTER 12Z TOMORROW. OUTLOOK...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTN/EVE SHRA/TSRA EXPECTED EACH DAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND...WITH AREAS OF MORNING FOG/STRATUS POSSIBLE... ESP IN THE MTN VALLEYS AND WHERE RAIN FALLS. 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 6TH 93 IN 1993 JULY 7TH 95 IN 1993 GSP JULY 6TH 100 IN 1993 JULY 7TH 100 IN 1993 CLT JULY 6TH 99 IN 1930 JULY 7TH 100 IN 1993 && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...JOH NEAR TERM...JPT SHORT TERM...RB LONG TERM...JOH AVIATION...JPT CLIMATE...
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 259 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2012 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-071900- 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- 259 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 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. EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA INTO THIS EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. FREQUENT CLOUD-TO- GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH ANY STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1003 AM EDT FRI JUL 06 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0720 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 S TAYLORS 34.89N 82.31W
07/05/2012 GREENVILLE SC COUNTY OFFICIAL
TREES DOWN ON OLD SPARTANBURG AND HUDSON ROADS.
CORRECTED EVENT TYPE IN ORIGINAL ISSUANCE.
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JOHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1008 AM EDT FRI JUL 06 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0720 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 S TAYLORS 34.89N 82.31W
07/05/2012 GREENVILLE SC COUNTY OFFICIAL
TREES DOWN ON OLD SPARTANBURG AND HUDSON ROADS.
&&
JOHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1051 AM EDT FRI JUL 06 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0700 PM TSTM WND DMG 4 SSE MONROE 34.93N 80.51W
07/05/2012 UNION NC TRAINED SPOTTER
LARGE LIMBS DOWN ON MECEDONIA CHURCH AND MEDLIN ROADS.
&&
JOHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1102 AM EDT FRI JUL 06 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0650 PM TSTM WND DMG MONROE 34.99N 80.54W
07/05/2012 UNION NC 911 CALL CENTER
MULTIPLE TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN ON WEST FRANKLIN
STREET AND BRAGG STREET.
&&
JOHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1240 PM EDT FRI JUL 06 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0623 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 E EDGEMOOR 34.81N 80.96W
07/05/2012 CHESTER SC EMERGENCY MNGR
TREES BLOWN DOWN BY THUNDERSTORM WIND.
&&
LGLSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 333 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2012 NCZ053-062000- BUNCOMBE- 333 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2012 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL BUNCOMBE COUNTY THROUGH 400 PM EDT... AT 328 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR WOODFIN...OR 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR... I-26 AT I-40... LEICESTER... SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. FREQUENT 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. LAT...LON 3552 8266 3564 8274 3569 8256 3560 8250 MCAVOY
The Greer radar (KGSP), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:38 UTC.
5 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree and power lines were blown down on a mobile home on Powers Rd, with one person trapped inside. Multiple trees were also down on Gorman Bridge Rd with another tree down on Wolf Park Circle. All of these events were very close together.
Trees were blown down on several roads northwest of Weaverville, including|New Stock Rd, Greenridge Rd, Monticello Rd and Gill Branch Rd.
Trees were blown down on Ward St, Relief Loop, and Travis St in Clyde with additional trees down in Waynesville.
A few trees were blown down along Bear Creek Rd about 3 miles north of Leicester.
Trees were blown down north of the Lake Junaluska area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, July 2012
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: 402686, 402687, 402688, 402689, 402690.