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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2025, 2:40 PM EDT for Graham County, Swain County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 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
- May 2, 2025, 2:40 PM EDT (18:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2025, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Graham County, NC, Swain County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 1206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 May 2, 1:52 PM EDT, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 1:52 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC 529 AM EDT Fri May 2 2025 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056-058-059- 062>065-068>070-501>510-SCZ008-010>013-019-101>109-030930- Rabun-Habersham-Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Elbert-Avery-Alexander- Iredell-Davie-Madison-Yancey-Mitchell-Swain-Haywood-Buncombe-Catawba- Graham-Northern Jackson-Macon-Southern Jackson-Transylvania- Henderson-Cleveland-Lincoln-Gaston-Caldwell Mountains- Greater Caldwell-Burke Mountains-Greater Burke-McDowell Mountains- Eastern McDowell-Rutherford Mountains-Greater Rutherford- Polk Mountains-Eastern Polk-Cherokee-Anderson-Abbeville-Laurens- Union-Greenwood-Oconee Mountains-Pickens Mountains- Greenville Mountains-Greater Oconee-Greater Pickens- Central Greenville-Southern Greenville-Northern Spartanburg- Southern Spartanburg- 529 AM EDT Fri May 2 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, Piedmont North Carolina, western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Scattered thunderstorms may pose a risk of damaging wind gusts and large hail, mainly this afternoon and evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Scattered thunderstorms may pose a risk of damaging wind gusts and large hail again Saturday and Saturday night. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are requested to forward any reports of large hail, damaging winds, tornadoes, or flash flooding to our office. NCZ057-071-072-082-SCZ009-014-030930- Rowan-Mecklenburg-Cabarrus-Union-York-Chester- 529 AM EDT Fri May 2 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Piedmont North Carolina and part of South Carolina near the Catawba River. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Scattered thunderstorms may pose a risk of damaging wind gusts and large hail Saturday and Saturday night. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. Wimberley
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 2, 2:06 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 27 min |
| May 2, 2:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Graham | 23 min |
| May 2, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Macon | 36 min |
| May 2, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Macon | 24 min |
| May 2, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson, Macon, Swain | 25 min |
| May 2, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 59 min |
| May 2, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 28 min |
| May 1, 11:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 25 min |
| May 2, 12:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 30 min |
| May 2, 12:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 42 min |
| May 2, 12:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 51 min |
| May 2, 1:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 45 min |
| May 2, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 41 min |
| May 2, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 34 min |
| May 2, 2:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 37 min |
| May 2, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee, Pickens | 44 min |
| May 2, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 37 min |
| May 2, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens | 43 min |
| May 2, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 38 min |
| May 2, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg | 42 min |
| May 2, 3:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 38 min |
| May 2, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 45 min |
| May 2, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, Spartanburg, Union | 51 min |
| May 2, 4:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood | 65 min |
| May 2, 4:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 51 min |
| May 2, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 52 min |
| May 2, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 41 min |
| May 2, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 46 min |
| May 2, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 23 min |
| May 2, 12:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Habersham | 31 min |
| May 2, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Stephens | 34 min |
| May 2, 7:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Habersham | 34 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.