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... Record daily maximum rainfall set at Greenville-Spartanburg SC... A record rainfall of 1.93 inches fell at Greenville-Spartanburg SC on Tuesday. This breaks the old daily rainfall record for the date of 1.76 inches set in 1988. Climatological data is maintained for Greenville-Spartanburg going back to 1884. |
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... Tornado confirmed in the Big Creek area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Haywood County North Carolina... Location... Big Creek area... Great Smoky Mountains (haywood county) date... June 13 2013 estimated time... 410 PM EDT maximum ef-scale rating... EF1 estimated maximum wind speed... 100 mph maximum path width... 100 yards path length... to be determined beginning lat/Lon... to be determined ending lat/Lon... 35.73 N/83.14 W * fatalities... 0 * injuries... 0 * the information in this statement is preliminary and subject to change pending final review of the event(s) and publication in NWS storm data. ... Summary... the National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg SC has confirmed a tornado in the Big Creek area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Haywood County North Carolina on June 13 2013. A survey team that included representatives from the National Weather Service and the unc-Asheville atmospheric sciences department investigated a reported damage area in the Big Creek region of the Great Smoky Mountains today. The survey team found an area of extensive tree damage about 3.5 miles up the Deep Creek trail from its terminus at Deep Creek Campground. This appeared to be the end of a damage path. Hundreds of small trees were snapped 10 to 20 feet above the ground... and dozens of large trees uprooted along a one-half mile section of the trail. The damage path more or less paralleled Deep Creek... suggesting the flow was channeled down the valley... with all the damage being blown toward the north or northwest. Considering a parent storm motion from the northwest... the damage pattern was highly convergent... while the damage path was very concentrated across a width of about 100 yards. These factors were clearly indicative of a tornado. The survey team viewed a damage path that extended up to a ridge top above /Low Gap/... and discussions with a trail maintenance crew indicated that the damage path extended west/northwest to at least the Tennessee line. However... downed trees and the rugged terrain made a complete survey impossible. The survey team hopes to use high resolution satellite data to precisely mark the beginning and ending locations of this tornado in the days ahead. This information can also be found on our website at weather.Gov/gsp. For reference... the Enhanced Fujita scale classifies tornadoes into the following categories: EF0... wind speeds 65 to 85 mph. EF1... wind speeds 86 to 110 mph. EF2... wind speeds 111 to 135 mph. EF3... wind speeds 136 to 165 mph. EF4... wind speeds 166 to 200 mph. EF5... wind speeds greater than 200 mph. |
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