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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 25, 2025Oconee County, South Carolina; Habersham County, Stephens County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2025, 9:30 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina; Habersham County, Stephens County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2025, 9:30 PM EDT (01:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2025, 10:17 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Habersham County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Oconee County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 7, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	18 days
Jun 25, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	11 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3661 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, 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 this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 25, 8:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 8:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 8:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 25, 8:50 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 8:52 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 9:02 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 9:12 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 9:13 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 9:23 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 8:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	38 min
Jun 25, 9:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	41 min
Jun 25, 10:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	31 min
Jun 25, 10:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	36 min
Jun 25, 10:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	37 min
Jun 25, 11:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	34 min
Jun 26, 12:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	33 min
Jun 26, 11:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	36 min
Jun 26, 12:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	27 min
Jun 26, 12:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Jackson, Macon, Transylvania	35 min
Jun 26, 12:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery	32 min
Jun 26, 12:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	30 min
Jun 26, 1:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	32 min
Jun 26, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	27 min
Jun 26, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	27 min
Jun 26, 2:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	24 min
Jun 26, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, McDowell, Madison, Rutherford, Yancey	46 min
Jun 26, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	36 min
Jun 26, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	30 min
Jun 26, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	64 min
Jun 26, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	57 min
Jun 26, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln	36 min
Jun 26, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	37 min
Jun 26, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	30 min
Jun 26, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Lincoln	29 min
Jun 26, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg	44 min
Jun 26, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus	33 min
Jun 26, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Iredell, Rowan	29 min
Jun 26, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Stanly	20 min
Jun 25, 8:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	54 min
Jun 25, 8:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	32 min
Jun 25, 8:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	23 min
Jun 25, 9:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	47 min
Jun 25, 11:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	33 min
Jun 26, 12:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	51 min
Jun 26, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Pickens	45 min
Jun 26, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Pickens	64 min
Jun 26, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	35 min
Jun 26, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	51 min
Jun 25, 9:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rabun	31 min
Jun 25, 9:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham	28 min
Jun 25, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Habersham, Rabun	50 min
Jun 25, 9:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Hart	33 min
Jun 25, 9:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Stephens	37 min
Jun 25, 9:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Franklin, Hart	50 min
Jun 25, 10:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Stephens	27 min
Jun 25, 10:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin	35 min
Jun 26, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham	32 min
Jun 26, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Stephens	32 min
Jun 26, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Stephens	33 min
Jun 26, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Stephens	28 min
Jun 26, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin, Habersham, Stephens	52 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.