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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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.
- 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Transylvania | 5 hr |
| May 27, 6:35 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 13 hr |
| May 27, 1:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Madison | 52 min |
| May 27, 1:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 50 min |
| May 27, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 47 min |
| May 27, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Madison | 44 min |
| May 27, 2:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mitchell | 46 min |
| May 27, 2:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Caldwell | 3 hr |
| May 27, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 54 min |
| May 27, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander | 54 min |
| May 27, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 45 min |
| May 27, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 56 min |
| May 27, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell | 43 min |
| May 27, 4:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 42 min |
| May 27, 4:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | McDowell | 85 min |
| May 27, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander, Iredell | 64 min |
| May 27, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rutherford | 43 min |
| May 27, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba | 51 min |
| May 27, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 66 min |
| May 27, 7:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Caldwell | 110 min |
| May 27, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 51 min |
| May 27, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 34 min |
| May 27, 7:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 56 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.