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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 27, 2026Caldwell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 2026, 3:22 PM EDT for Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 2026, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2026, 7:10 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Caldwell County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 368 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2026-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 625 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2026-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
625 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 9:12 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPTransylvania5 hr
May 27, 6:35 AM EDTRiver Flood AdvisoryGSPHenderson, Transylvania13 hr
May 27, 1:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison52 min
May 27, 1:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHaywood50 min
May 27, 2:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCaldwell47 min
May 27, 2:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison44 min
May 27, 2:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMitchell46 min
May 27, 2:59 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPCaldwell3 hr
May 27, 3:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe54 min
May 27, 3:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander54 min
May 27, 3:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe45 min
May 27, 3:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell56 min
May 27, 4:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPDavie, Iredell43 min
May 27, 4:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPDavie42 min
May 27, 4:34 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPMcDowell85 min
May 27, 4:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander, Iredell64 min
May 27, 5:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRutherford43 min
May 27, 5:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba51 min
May 27, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston66 min
May 27, 7:10 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPCaldwell110 min
May 27, 7:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg51 min
May 27, 7:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg34 min
May 27, 7:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus56 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.