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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 9, 2026Oconee County, South Carolina; Habersham County, Stephens County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2026, 4:11 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina; Habersham County, Stephens County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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 9, 2026, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2026, 4:42 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Habersham County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Oconee County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 2026-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1450 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 2026-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 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
1450 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 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 9, 6:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCleveland11 min
Aug 9, 6:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCaldwell10 min
Aug 9, 7:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCleveland14 min
Aug 9, 7:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMcDowell11 min
Aug 9, 7:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMitchell36 min
Aug 9, 7:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke28 min
Aug 8, 8:28 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPGreenville2 hr
Aug 9, 3:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee26 min
Aug 9, 4:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg37 min
Aug 9, 5:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg34 min
Aug 9, 4:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPStephens27 min
Aug 9, 4:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBanks18 min
Aug 9, 5:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHabersham31 min

Nearby

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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.