South Carolina storm reports for August 17, 2021

Name: NOAA storm reports, South Carolina, August 17, 2021
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 1 wind report and 12 tornado reports in South Carolina on August 17, 2021.

in South Carolina; 13
Storm reports: About 7 miles from Spartanburg, SC; 58 mph
Highest gust: Highest rating EF1, about 6 miles from Greenville, SC; 12
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

Wind report
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; radar hail estimates from NOAA MRMS; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

Wind report
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on August 17, 2021 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

Reports by hour

Wind1, most at 6 PM

Tornado12, most at 2 PM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
11:50 AM	EF0	About 32 miles from Greenville, SC	0.14 mi long, 50 yd wide
11:59 AM	EF0	About 25 miles from Greenville, SC	0.15 mi long, 50 yd wide
12:03 PM	EF0	About 18 miles from Augusta, GA	1.51 mi long, 100 yd wide
1:53 PM	EF1	About 6 miles from Greenville, SC	2.4 mi long, 75 yd wide
2:31 PM	EF0	About 33 miles from Columbia, SC	9.42 mi long, 75 yd wide
2:33 PM	EF0	About 34 miles from Columbia, SC	4.32 mi long, 50 yd wide
2:49 PM	EF1	About 29 miles from Columbia, SC	1.96 mi long, 100 yd wide
2:53 PM	EF1	About 29 miles from Columbia, SC	2.88 mi long, 250 yd wide
4:40 PM	EF1	About 31 miles from Columbia, SC	0.9 mi long, 50 yd wide
5:07 PM	EF0	About 17 miles from Greenville, SC	0.2 mi long, 30 yd wide
5:18 PM	EF1	About 15 miles from Greenville, SC	1.45 mi long, 75 yd wide
7:47 PM	EF0	About 39 miles from Columbia, SC	0.11 mi long, 25 yd wide

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

City	Largest hail	Highest gust	Tornado reports
Greenville, SC	None	None	2
Spartanburg, SC	None	58 mph	0

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.