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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 6, 2026Union County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2026, 4:48 PM EDT for Union County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 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
Aug 6, 2026, 4:48 PM EDT (20:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 2026, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Union County, NC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 237 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 2026-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2265 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 2026-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
2265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 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
Aug 5, 11:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg55 min
Aug 6, 12:48 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus, Rowan57 min
Aug 6, 4:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion27 min
Aug 6, 4:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston, Lincoln67 min
Aug 6, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCaldwell44 min
Aug 6, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPJackson, Transylvania60 min
Aug 6, 5:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHaywood30 min
Aug 6, 5:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson33 min
Aug 6, 5:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRutherford32 min
Aug 6, 5:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCaldwell29 min
Aug 6, 5:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe28 min
Aug 6, 5:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYancey33 min
Aug 6, 5:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPJackson31 min
Aug 6, 6:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan29 min
Aug 6, 6:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk25 min
Aug 6, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson, Polk66 min
Aug 6, 6:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba, Davie, Iredell, Rowan31 min
Aug 6, 6:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCleveland24 min
Aug 6, 6:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPJackson29 min
Aug 6, 6:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison26 min
Aug 6, 6:50 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPPolk, Rutherford5 hr
Aug 6, 6:54 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPBurke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln3 hr
Aug 6, 7:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell13 min
Aug 6, 7:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe25 min
Aug 5, 8:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville30 min
Aug 5, 8:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville32 min
Aug 5, 8:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville31 min
Aug 5, 11:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYork46 min
Aug 6, 3:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenwood23 min
Aug 6, 3:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenwood29 min
Aug 6, 4:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYork25 min
Aug 6, 4:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion24 min
Aug 6, 5:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens26 min
Aug 6, 6:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens37 min
Aug 6, 5:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRabun27 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.