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Station History
May 1893
Cooperative observations of temperature and precipitation begin in
Greenville.
April 8, 1897
Cooperative observations of temperature and precipitation begin in
Spartanburg.
October 6, 1917
U.S. Weather Bureau opens office at the Greenville County courthouse.
October 1, 1925
Weather Bureau office relocates to Chamber of Commerce Building.
June 14, 1930
Weather Bureau office opens at Spartanburg Airport to provide aviation
weather services.
June 30, 1933
Greenville Weather Bureau office moves to 313 Choice St.
September 5, 1934
Greenville Weather office closes, observations reverted back to cooperative
status.
January 1, 1938
Greenville Weather Bureau office reopens at the U.S. Post Office and
courthouse at 300 E. Washington St.
December 11, 1941
Office moves to the Greenville Municipal Airport to provide aviation
weather services.
October 15, 1962
Weather offices at the Greenville Municipal and Spartanburg Airports
consolidated at the new Greenville-Spartanburg Jetport and located
on the second floor of the control tower building. During this period,
a 10 county service area in Upstate South Carolina was established
and the Weather Bureau began to emphasize public service as the science
of meteorology advanced.
1970
the Weather Bureau became the National
Weather Service under the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US
Department of Commerce.
In the mid 1970s
NOAA Weather Radio was designated as the only method by which the
federal government could broadcast directly to the public. NOAA Weather
Radio remains an effective method of receiving warnings and routine
weather information.
Doppler radar was developed in the 1970s and 1980s and the National
Weather Service began its most ambitious Modernization program.
The Greenville-Spartanburg Office moved to this location on May
24, 1995 and began to consolidate services for northeast Georgia
and the western Carolinas on October 1, 1995. At the same time we
began to operate the new WSR-88D weather radar. The original 10
county service area has grown to 46 counties as the office begins
the transformation into a Weather Forecast Office.
December 1, 1998
The NWS at Greenville-Spartanburg assumed forecast and long-fused
watch/warning/advisory responsibility.
May 4, 2000
With the commissioning of the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing
System (AWIPS), the NWS Greenville-Spartanburg has completed all the
requirements of the National Weather Service Modernization and Associated
Restructuring (MAR). Therefore, the official designation for the office
has changed from that of an NWSO (NEXRAD Weather Service Office) to
that of a WFO (Weather Forecast Office). |
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office Greenville-Spartanburg
GSP International Airport
1549 GSP Drive
Greer, SC 29651
(864) 848-3859
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