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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 2025, 7:52 PM EDT for 4 counties in South Carolina; Hart County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 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
- Apr 10, 2025, 7:52 PM EDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2025, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Hart County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Oconee County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 212 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 10, 7:36 PM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 7:36 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC 507 PM EDT Thu Apr 10 2025 NCZ033-035>037-048>050-052-053-056-057-064-065-068>072-082-501>510- SCZ008>014-019-102-103-105>109-112115- Avery-Alexander-Iredell-Davie-Madison-Yancey-Mitchell-Haywood- Buncombe-Catawba-Rowan-Transylvania-Henderson-Cleveland-Lincoln- Gaston-Mecklenburg-Cabarrus-Union-Caldwell Mountains- Greater Caldwell-Burke Mountains-Greater Burke-McDowell Mountains- Eastern McDowell-Rutherford Mountains-Greater Rutherford- Polk Mountains-Eastern Polk-Cherokee-York-Anderson-Abbeville-Laurens- Chester-Greenwood-Pickens Mountains-Greenville Mountains- Greater Pickens-Central Greenville-Southern Greenville- Northern Spartanburg-Southern Spartanburg- 507 PM EDT Thu Apr 10 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Piedmont North Carolina, western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Scattered thunderstorms will cross the area this evening. A few of the thunderstorms strong to severe, with damaging wind gusts as the main threat. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ051-058-059-062-063-SCZ101-104-112115- Rabun-Habersham-Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Elbert-Swain-Graham- Northern Jackson-Macon-Southern Jackson-Oconee Mountains- Greater Oconee- 507 PM EDT Thu Apr 10 2025 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 137 IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 6:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
645 PM EDT Thu Apr 10 2025
NCZ051-052-058-102330-
Haywood NC-Graham NC-Swain NC-
645 PM EDT Thu Apr 10 2025
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT SWAIN...NORTHEASTERN GRAHAM AND
NORTHWESTERN HAYWOOD COUNTIES THROUGH 730 PM EDT...
At 644 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 13 miles southeast of Newport to 12 miles north
of Robbinsville. Movement was east at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Waterville, Smoky Mountains, Cherokee, Fines Creek, Deals Gap,
Balsam Mountain, and Fontana Lake.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until midnight EDT for
western North Carolina.
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LAT...LON 3552 8388 3556 8377 3558 8360 3556 8358
3556 8350 3566 8335 3566 8330 3573 8324
3572 8320 3576 8316 3579 8308 3574 8292
3564 8288 3551 8318 3552 8324 3547 8332
3547 8334 3544 8336 3535 8356 3547 8394
TIME...MOT...LOC 2244Z 291DEG 41KT 3579 8310 3550 8387
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
MPRSpecial weather statement, Apr 10, 7:22 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Graham | 46 min |
| Apr 10, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Madison | 39 min |
| Apr 10, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Macon | 53 min |
| Apr 10, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Swain | 45 min |
| Apr 10, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood, Jackson, Swain | 39 min |
| Apr 10, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson, Macon, Transylvania | 43 min |
| Apr 10, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Yancey | 23 min |
| Apr 10, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 33 min |
| Apr 10, 7:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 26 min |
| Apr 10, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee | 45 min |
| Apr 10, 7:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 29 min |
| Apr 10, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Stephens | 36 min |
| Apr 10, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert, Franklin, Hart | 60 min |
Nearby
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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.