Based on ERA-Interim reanalysis data from ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts), precipitation retrieval products 3B42RT from tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) satellite, measured data by Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) on board global precipitation measurement (GPM) satellite, FY-2F cloud classification (CLC) and black body temperature (TBB) products, the southwest vortexes affecting precipitation in central-eastern China from April to October (the warm season) during 2010-2020 were analyzed. The results show that there were 108 cases of southwest vortexes moving out of the origin along different paths, and the eastward movement type, northeastward movement type and southeastward movement type accounted for 58.3%, 27.8% and 12.0%, respectively. The eastward movement type southwestern vortex mainly impacted the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze, with the main rain-band distributing in an east-west orientation. In contrast, the major rain-band of the northeastward movement type southwestern vortex was located in the area from Huai River basin to North China, while the precipitation of the southeastward movement type southwestern vortex concentrated in south China and its coastal. In addition, the precipitation cloud characteristics of these three types of moving-out southwest vortex were distinctly different. The eastward movement type southwestern vortex affecting Jiangnan area tended to generate different precipitation types in different areas, dominated by cumulus clouds to the south of 30 °N, and by stratiform rainfall to the north. Meanwhile, the northeastward movement type southwestern vortex generated precipitation was a combination of convective and stratiform rainfall (i.e., mixed precipitation), with convective-stratiform mixed cloud precipitation. The southeastward movement type southwestern vortex precipitation was dominated by convective precipitation. The vortex precipitation cloud mainly consisted of cumulonimbus and dense cirrus clouds, with high extension height and low TBB. The eastward movement type and the northeastward movement type southwestern vortex both had wide cloud area, while the southeastward movement type southwestern vortex cloud was massive and dense.