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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2026, 1:38 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 37 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
- Sep 5, 2026, 1:38 PM EDT (17:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2026, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Buncombe County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 1:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 305 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
- 1622 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 947 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 5, 11:27 AM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 11:27 AM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 12:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Haywood, McDowell, Madison and 2 more | 48 min |
| Sep 5, 12:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 32 min |
| Sep 5, 1:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander | 36 min |
| Sep 5, 1:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 43 min |
| Sep 5, 1:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Jackson | 26 min |
| Sep 5, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell and 2 more | 34 min |
| Sep 5, 1:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 28 min |
| Sep 5, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Catawba, Iredell | 41 min |
| Sep 5, 1:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 34 min |
| Sep 5, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 53 min |
| Sep 5, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln, McDowell, Rutherford | 48 min |
| Sep 5, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 52 min |
| Sep 5, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood | 24 min |
| Sep 5, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 23 min |
| Sep 5, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood, Laurens | 39 min |
| Sep 5, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 46 min |
| Sep 5, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 46 min |
| Sep 5, 1:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rabun | 31 min |
| Sep 5, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Franklin, Habersham, Stephens | 51 min |
| Sep 5, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert, Franklin, Hart | 29 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.