Tornado, Greenville
- When
- May 27, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Greenville County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 16 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 17 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 34.770, -82.430
Tornadoes in South Carolina, May 27, 1973
7 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 45
- Property damage
- $8.1 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
7 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Spartanburg
- When
- May 27, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Spartanburg County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 11.1 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Injuries
- 16 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 34.920, -82.220
Tornado, Cherokee
- When
- May 27, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Cherokee County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 19.8 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 4 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 35.000, -82.050
Tornado, Oconee
- When
- May 27, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Oconee County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 22.5 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.800, -83.280
Tornado, Abbeville
- When
- May 27, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Abbeville County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 11.8 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 7 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.300, -82.520
Tornado, Pickens
- When
- May 27, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Pickens County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 23.6 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 34.880, -82.780
Tornado, Oconee
- When
- May 27, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Oconee County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 34.870, -82.980
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, May 27, 1973
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, May 27, 1973
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 27, 1973
- Tornadoes and Hail in Georgia, May 27, 1973
- Tornadoes in Indiana, May 27, 1973
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 27, 1973
- Tornado in Missouri, May 27, 1973
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 27, 1973
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 27, 1973
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 27, 1973
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 27, 1973
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 27, 1973
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10112061, 10112062, 10112063, 10112064, 10112065, 10112066, 10112067.