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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 11, 2025McDowell County, Mitchell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2025, 3:06 PM EDT for McDowell County, Mitchell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
Jul 11, 2025, 3:06 PM EDT (19:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 2025, 3:38 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 352 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 2025-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1255 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 2025-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 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
1255 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
728 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 8:04 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPCaldwell4 hr
Jul 10, 8:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke35 min
Jul 10, 8:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan24 min
Jul 10, 8:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba34 min
Jul 10, 8:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMitchell24 min
Jul 10, 8:46 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPBurke3 hr
Jul 10, 9:12 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPCatawba3 hr
Jul 10, 10:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg25 min
Jul 10, 10:39 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPCabarrus, Mecklenburg3 hr
Jul 11, 1:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison23 min
Jul 11, 2:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe35 min
Jul 11, 2:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHaywood27 min
Jul 11, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania65 min
Jul 11, 2:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMitchell32 min
Jul 11, 3:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe, Henderson32 min
Jul 11, 3:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson32 min
Jul 11, 3:55 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPBuncombe3 hr
Jul 11, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson, Polk47 min
Jul 11, 4:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMcDowell43 min
Jul 11, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson, Polk28 min
Jul 11, 4:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRutherford30 min
Jul 11, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRutherford65 min
Jul 11, 3:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee36 min
Jul 11, 4:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville41 min
Jul 11, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville49 min
Jul 11, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville, Pickens43 min
Jul 11, 4:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville57 min
Jul 11, 5:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson35 min
Jul 11, 5:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg38 min
Jul 11, 5:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg38 min
Jul 11, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg42 min
Jul 11, 6:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville, Oconee38 min
Jul 11, 6:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenwood49 min
Jul 11, 6:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville40 min
Jul 11, 6:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenwood, Laurens24 min
Jul 11, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson44 min
Jul 11, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLaurens27 min
Jul 11, 6:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville38 min
Jul 11, 7:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens25 min
Jul 11, 7:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville31 min
Jul 11, 6:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPStephens48 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.