EF0 Tornado — Greenville, South Carolina

2024-09-25 · near River Falls, Greenville, South Carolina

Event narrative

Emergency manager reported a brief tornado touched down in an area between Jones Gap State Park and River Falls Rd. Multiple trees were blown down and some outbuildings were damaged.

Wider weather episode

A plume of moisture extending from an intensifying Tropical Cyclone Helene over the Gulf of Mexico interacted with a slow-moving cold front to produce a band of widespread heavy rain showers and embedded scattered thunderstorms over the southern Appalachians and vicinity on the 25th and 26th. One of the embedded storms produced a brief, weak tornado in northern Greenville County.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1219191. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.