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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 19, 2026Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2026, 7:44 PM EDT for Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 35 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 19, 2026, 7:44 PM EDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2026, 8:19 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 235 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 2026-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1774 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 2026-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
1774 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 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 19, 12:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell32 min
Jul 19, 1:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPDavie16 min
Jul 19, 2:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe38 min
Jul 19, 2:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba, Iredell46 min
Jul 19, 2:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke45 min
Jul 19, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford14 min
Jul 19, 3:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba47 min
Jul 19, 3:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk44 min
Jul 19, 3:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk40 min
Jul 19, 3:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba33 min
Jul 19, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke, Catawba43 min
Jul 19, 3:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania40 min
Jul 19, 3:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe43 min
Jul 19, 4:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLincoln42 min
Jul 19, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson38 min
Jul 19, 4:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCleveland49 min
Jul 19, 4:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe44 min
Jul 19, 4:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion47 min
Jul 19, 4:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMitchell, Yancey41 min
Jul 19, 4:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGaston36 min
Jul 19, 4:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania48 min
Jul 19, 4:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion21 min
Jul 19, 5:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion21 min
Jul 19, 5:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg39 min
Jul 19, 5:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion44 min
Jul 19, 6:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus40 min
Jul 19, 7:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGraham41 min
Jul 18, 8:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson40 min
Jul 18, 8:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg34 min
Jul 18, 8:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson42 min
Jul 18, 9:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville53 min
Jul 19, 4:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville38 min
Jul 19, 5:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenwood38 min
Jul 19, 7:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion43 min
Jul 19, 7:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens45 min
Jul 19, 7:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg23 min
Jul 18, 9:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPElbert52 min
Jul 18, 10:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPElbert32 min
Jul 19, 6:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPStephens39 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.