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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 24, 2025Avery County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2025, 3:22 PM EDT for Avery County, North Carolina. It was in force for 23 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
Jun 24, 2025, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2025, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Avery County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 382 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2025-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1763 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2025-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1763 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1099 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 3:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGraham33 min
Jun 24, 3:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAvery15 min
Jun 24, 3:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYancey30 min
Jun 24, 3:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYancey33 min
Jun 24, 4:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHaywood40 min
Jun 24, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe, Madison31 min
Jun 24, 4:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPJackson35 min
Jun 24, 4:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPClay27 min
Jun 24, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPJackson, Swain47 min
Jun 24, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGraham, Macon, Swain43 min
Jun 24, 5:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSwain23 min
Jun 24, 5:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison25 min
Jun 24, 6:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMacon41 min
Jun 24, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe48 min
Jun 24, 6:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSwain32 min
Jun 24, 5:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens30 min

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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.