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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 5, 2026Burke County, McDowell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2026, 6:15 PM EDT for Burke County, McDowell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 60 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 5, 2026, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2026, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Burke County, NC, McDowell County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 355 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 2026-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1885 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 2026-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
1885 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 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 5, 12:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAvery29 min
Jul 5, 12:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAvery36 min
Jul 5, 12:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion33 min
Jul 5, 12:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCaldwell26 min
Jul 5, 1:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke36 min
Jul 5, 1:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson31 min
Jul 5, 1:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCaldwell27 min
Jul 5, 1:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus23 min
Jul 5, 1:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMacon27 min
Jul 5, 1:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson32 min
Jul 5, 2:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba31 min
Jul 5, 2:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHaywood33 min
Jul 5, 2:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander28 min
Jul 5, 3:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell38 min
Jul 5, 3:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGraham33 min
Jul 5, 3:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe32 min
Jul 5, 3:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPJackson35 min
Jul 5, 3:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania34 min
Jul 5, 4:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg36 min
Jul 5, 4:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison24 min
Jul 5, 4:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCleveland34 min
Jul 5, 4:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus32 min
Jul 5, 4:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYancey34 min
Jul 5, 4:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion32 min
Jul 5, 5:03 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPCabarrus3 hr
Jul 5, 5:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus30 min
Jul 5, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union42 min
Jul 5, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMacon37 min
Jul 5, 5:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke31 min
Jul 5, 5:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMcDowell35 min
Jul 5, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford65 min
Jul 5, 12:34 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion26 min
Jul 5, 1:00 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion45 min
Jul 5, 2:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee30 min
Jul 5, 2:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion32 min
Jul 5, 3:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee36 min
Jul 5, 4:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPChester23 min
Jul 5, 4:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville35 min
Jul 5, 5:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg32 min
Jul 5, 5:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCherokee28 min
Jul 5, 5:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPChester25 min
Jul 5, 5:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee25 min
Jul 5, 5:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPChester33 min
Jul 5, 6:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYork24 min
Jul 5, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPChester, Union, York47 min
Jul 5, 5:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRabun24 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.