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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 8, 2025Gaston County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2025, 7:09 PM EDT for Gaston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 66 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 8, 2025, 7:09 PM EDT (23:09 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2025, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 2.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Gaston County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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
May 8, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 260 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1148 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 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 May 8, 5:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 5:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 4:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 6:25 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 6:27 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 6:44 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 6:46 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 6:48 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 6:50 PM EDT, 19 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
May 8, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	29 min
May 8, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	28 min
May 8, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	26 min
May 8, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	24 min
May 8, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Madison	31 min
May 8, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	28 min
May 8, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	33 min
May 8, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, McDowell, Rutherford	41 min
May 8, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	24 min
May 8, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	35 min
May 8, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	32 min
May 8, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	45 min
May 8, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	57 min
May 8, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Cleveland, McDowell, Rutherford	81 min
May 8, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell, Rutherford	45 min
May 8, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	23 min
May 8, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Caldwell	59 min
May 8, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	56 min
May 8, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Caldwell	39 min
May 8, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Swain	34 min
May 8, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	31 min
May 8, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	28 min
May 8, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	24 min
May 8, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	30 min
May 8, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Iredell, Lincoln	68 min
May 8, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	33 min
May 8, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	59 min
May 8, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Polk, Rutherford	57 min
May 8, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Jackson, Macon, Transylvania	55 min
May 8, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	68 min
May 8, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	29 min
May 8, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	42 min
May 8, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	61 min
May 8, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	26 min
May 8, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	51 min
May 8, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Graham, Swain	58 min
May 8, 7:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford	3 hr
May 8, 7:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	24 min
May 8, 7:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	28 min
May 8, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	35 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.