Scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms developed along a slow-moving backdoor cold front across the South Carolina Piedmont. One of the storms produced brief damaging winds across Laurens County.
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The episode as NWS GSP wrote it up.
Scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms developed along a slow-moving backdoor cold front across the South Carolina Piedmont. One of the storms produced brief damaging winds across Laurens County.
The Greer radar (KGSP), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:10 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
County comms reported multiple trees blown down in the Joanna area.
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