Numerous showers and thunderstorms developed during the afternoon along a surface trough across Upstate South Carolina. One isolated severe storm occurred on the north side of the Greenville metro area.
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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.
Numerous showers and thunderstorms developed during the afternoon along a surface trough across Upstate South Carolina. One isolated severe storm occurred on the north side of the Greenville metro area.
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 Jun 27, 1:51 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
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</html>SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
346 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 2015
SCZ001>007-010-272045-
GREATER PICKENS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC-GREATER OCONEE SC-
OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-GREATER GREENVILLE SC-SPARTANBURG SC-
GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC-ANDERSON SC-
346 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 2015
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
OCONEE...PICKENS...NORTHWESTERN SPARTANBURG...NORTHERN GREENVILLE AND
NORTH CENTRAL ANDERSON COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM EDT...
AT 346 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF BREVARD
TO 8 MILES WEST OF WALHALLA...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EASLEY...CLEMSON...SENECA...WALHALLA...PICKENS...TAYLORS...GREENVILLE
DOWNTOWN...BEREA...TRAVELERS REST AND CENTRAL.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL MAY FLOOD AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE...SUCH AS
DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE
RAPIDLY. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS.
FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. IF OUTDOORS...TRY
TO GET INDOORS OR INTO A HARD TOPPED VEHICLE. OTHERWISE...STAY AWAY
FROM OPEN AREAS AND ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. WHEN
INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING WIRED
ELECTRONIC DEVICES. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY APPLIANCES BEFORE THE
STORMS APPROACH.
&&
LAT...LON 3471 8335 3507 8278 3510 8270 3513 8268
3514 8201 3466 8270
TIME...MOT...LOC 1946Z 272DEG 22KT 3510 8267 3475 8321
CDGSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
417 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 2015
SCZ019-272115-
GREENWOOD SC-
417 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN GREENWOOD
COUNTY UNTIL 515 PM EDT...
AT 417 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12
MILES SOUTH OF ABBEVILLE...OR NEAR TROY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NINETY SIX...TROY...NINETY SIX HISTORIC SITE...GREENWOOD STATE
PARK...LAKE GREENWOOD...PROMISED LAND...BRADLEY...EPWORTH...DYSON AND
CALLISON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL MAY FLOOD AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE...SUCH AS
DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE
RAPIDLY. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS.
FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...TRY TO
GET INDOORS OR INTO A HARD TOPPED VEHICLE. OTHERWISE...STAY AWAY FROM
OPEN AREAS AND ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. WHEN INDOORS...
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING WIRED ELECTRONIC
DEVICES. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY APPLIANCES BEFORE THE STORM
APPROACHES.
&&
LAT...LON 3398 8205 3399 8215 3399 8221 3402 8224
3397 8231 3407 8233 3413 8226 3421 8196
3420 8193 3418 8192 3418 8191 3415 8190
3413 8187 3410 8190 3409 8192 3404 8194
3396 8201 3395 8205
TIME...MOT...LOC 2017Z 268DEG 17KT 3401 8230
CDGThe Greer radar (KGSP), 22 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:23 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
DOT reported a tree blown down on Ridge Rd in Berea and another tree at School Rd and N Franklin Rd in north Greenville.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, June 2015
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 590689.