PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
726 PM EST MON NOV 11 2002

...PARTIAL SURVEY OF STORM DAMAGE IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA AND 
ELBERT COUNTY GEORGIA FROM THIS MORNING...

TWO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TEAMS LOOKED AT SOME OF THE DAMAGE 
REPORTED EARLY THIS MORNING. THE DAMAGE IN ELBERT COUNTY GEORGIA AND 
GREENWOOD COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA WAS JUDGED TO BE DOWNBURST. NO 
EVIDENCE OF ROTATION WAS NOTED.

NEAR TOWNVILLE SOUTH CAROLINA...DOWNBURST WIND WAS ALSO NOTED. 
MAXIMUM WINDS WERE ESTIMATED IN THE 70 TO 80 MPH RANGE...WITH DAMAGE 
TO TREES...POWER LINES...SOME LIGHT STRUCTURAL WIND DAMAGE TO HOUSES 
AND MOBILE HOMES. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH 
TREES FALLING ONTO HOMES. THE DAMAGE PATTERN WAS CLEARLY DIVERGENT 
ALONG HIGHWAY 243...NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF TRIBBLE ROAD...AND 
EXTENDED TO OTHER NEARBY ROADS. THIS DAMAGE WAS REPORTED AROUND 450 
AM TO 5 AM EST.

A SIGNIFICANT AREA OF WIND DAMAGE WAS FOUND NEAR PIEDMONT IN 
GREENVILLE COUNTY. A NUMBER OF TREES AND POWER LINES WERE 
DOWNED...AND SOME APPARENTLY FELL ON STRUCTURES AND VEHICLES. NO 
EVIDENCE OF ROTATION WAS NOTED.  THIS DAMAGE WAS REPORTED AROUND 515 
AM EST.

IN WEST PELZER...ON THE ANDERSON COUNTY SIDE...THERE WERE SEVERAL 
REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE. THIS AREA HAS NOT YET BEEN SURVEYED...BUT 
HOPEFULLY WILL BE TUESDAY.

IN SIMPSONVILLE...THE SURVEY TEAM CONCLUDED THAT A SMALL TORNADO OF 
F1 INTENSITY OCCURRED. MAXIMUM WINDS WERE JUDGED IN THE 80 TO 90 MPH 
RANGE. THE 1/8 MILE WIDE TRACK...ABOUT A MILE IN LENGTH...WAS FROM THE 
HUNTERS WOOD SUBDIVISION...TO JUST SOUTH OF THE FAIRVIEW 
ROAD/INTERSTATE 385 INTERCHANGE...TO THE CAMPUS OF BRYSON 
MIDDLE/HILLCREST HIGH...TO HIGHWAY 14.  QUITE A BIT OF DAMAGE WAS 
NOTED TO HOMES...MAINLY FROM FALLEN TREES...WITH STRUCTURAL WIND 
DAMAGE TO A HOTEL...SCOREBOARDS AND FENCES BEHIND THE SCHOOL 
BUILDINGS. AN INDISTINCT CONVERGENT DAMAGE PATTERN WAS 
OBSERVED...WITH MAXIMUM WIND EVIDENT AT THE SCHOOL CAMPUS /BUILDINGS 
WERE NOT OBSERVED TO HAVE SIGNFICANT DAMAGE/.  THE TORNADO THEN 
APPARENTLY DISSIPATED...BUT ADDITIONAL WIND DAMAGE WAS NOTED IN A 
DIVERGENT PATTERN IN THE AREA FROM THE EAST SIDE OF 
SIMPSONVILLE...TO JUST NORTH OF FOUNTAIN INN.  THIS DAMAGE WAS 
REPORTED FROM ABOUT 525 AM TO 535 AM EST.

ALL OF THE ABOVE DAMAGE WAS FROM THE SAME STORM SEGMENT IN THE LINE 
OF STORMS WHICH MOVED ACROSS EARLY THIS MORNING.  IT IS POSSIBLE 
ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE COULD HAVE OCCURRED...AND REMAINS 
UNREPORTED. NO INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER 
SERVICE.

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