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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 14, 2025Cleveland County, Rutherford County, North Carolina; Cherokee County, Spartanburg County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2025, 6:14 PM EDT for Cleveland County, Rutherford County, North Carolina; Cherokee County, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 61 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 14, 2025, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2025, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cleveland County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Cherokee County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 282 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 14, 5:58 PM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 5:58 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 4:43 AM EDT, 13 hours 31 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
443 AM EDT Wed May 14 2025

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ008>014-019-101>109-150845-
Rabun-Habersham-Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Elbert-Avery-Alexander-
Iredell-Davie-Madison-Yancey-Mitchell-Swain-Haywood-Buncombe-Catawba-
Rowan-Graham-Northern Jackson-Macon-Southern Jackson-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-Oconee Mountains-
Pickens Mountains-Greenville Mountains-Greater Oconee-
Greater Pickens-Central Greenville-Southern Greenville-
Northern Spartanburg-Southern Spartanburg-
443 AM EDT Wed May 14 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 showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop across
the area this afternoon into this evening. A severe thunderstorm or
two cannot be ruled out, with large hail and damaging winds as
potential threats.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

None.

ARK

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 14, 1:39 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
139 PM EDT Wed May 14 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0740 PM     Tornado          3 NE Calhoun Falls      34.12N 82.55W
05/12/2025                   Abbeville          SC   NWS Storm Survey

            A brief and weak EF-0 tornado touched down
            along Old Calhoun Falls Road near Mud Creek
            Road. The tornado moved northeast,
            paralleling Old Calhoun Falls Road, before
            dissipating near the intersection with
            Latimer Road. The tornado snapped multiple
            large limbs and uprooted a couple trees.
            Maximum estimated winds were 65 mph with a
            width of 20 yards.

&&

TW

Local storm report, May 14, 3:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 14, 3:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 14, 5:38 PM EDT, 36 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 13, 9:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	24 min
May 13, 9:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Rowan	26 min
May 14, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Lincoln	54 min
May 14, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Cleveland, McDowell, Rutherford	60 min
May 14, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	60 min
May 14, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	37 min
May 13, 8:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	33 min
May 13, 9:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2025 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2025 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2025

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.