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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 2025, 5:04 AM EST for Greenville County, Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 41 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
- Mar 5, 2025, 5:04 AM EST (10:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2025, 5:45 AM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Greenville County, SC, Pickens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1496 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 606 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 Mar 5, 4:26 AM EST, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 4:26 AM EST, 38 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC 1018 PM EST Tue Mar 4 2025 GAZ018-026-028-029-NCZ035>037-056-057-068>072-082-502-504-506-508- 510-SCZ008>014-019-104>109-060330- Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Elbert-Alexander-Iredell-Davie-Catawba-Rowan- Cleveland-Lincoln-Gaston-Mecklenburg-Cabarrus-Union-Greater Caldwell- Greater Burke-Eastern McDowell-Greater Rutherford-Eastern Polk- Cherokee-York-Anderson-Abbeville-Laurens-Chester-Greenwood- Greater Oconee-Greater Pickens-Central Greenville- Southern Greenville-Northern Spartanburg-Southern Spartanburg- 1018 PM EST Tue Mar 4 2025 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, Piedmont North Carolina, 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. Wind Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. NCZ053-059-062>064-060330- Buncombe-Northern Jackson-Macon-Southern Jackson-Transylvania- 1018 PM EST Tue Mar 4 2025 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST WEDNESDAY ABOVE 3500 FEET... ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST WEDNESDAY BELOW 3500 FEET... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for western North 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. High Wind Warning. Wind Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. High Wind Warning. Wind Advisory. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. GAZ010-017-NCZ065-501-503-505-507-509-SCZ101>103-060330- Rabun-Habersham-Henderson-Caldwell Mountains-Burke Mountains- McDowell Mountains-Rutherford Mountains-Polk Mountains- Oconee Mountains-Pickens Mountains-Greenville Mountains- 1018 PM EST Tue Mar 4 2025 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST WEDNESDAY... 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. Wind Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. NCZ048-049-051-052-058-060330- Madison-Yancey-Swain-Haywood-Graham- 1018 PM EST Tue Mar 4 2025 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST WEDNESDAY ABOVE 3500 FEET... ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST WEDNESDAY BELOW 3500 FEET... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for western North 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. High Wind Warning. Wind Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. High Wind Warning. Wind Advisory. Accumulating snow is expected along the Tennessee border Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. Most populated areas will see less than 2 inches, but high elevations on northwest facing ridges could see up to 4 inches. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. NCZ033-050-060330- Avery-Mitchell- 1018 PM EST Tue Mar 4 2025 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST WEDNESDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for western North 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. Wind Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. Accumulating snow is expected along the Tennessee border Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. Most populated areas will see less than 2 inches, but high elevations on northwest facing ridges could see up to 4 inches. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 2:32 AM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 5, 5:51 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 24 min |
| Mar 5, 6:16 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 6:46 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 6:53 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 6:58 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 47 min |
| Mar 5, 7:33 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Davie, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 42 min |
| Mar 5, 7:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 30 min |
| Mar 5, 7:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 31 min |
| Mar 5, 8:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Union | 52 min |
| Mar 5, 8:31 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 29 min |
| Mar 5, 3:51 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 54 min |
| Mar 5, 4:27 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson, Oconee, Pickens | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 5:22 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg | 53 min |
| Mar 5, 7:22 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester | 23 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.