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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 324, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

September 6, 2026Buncombe County, McDowell County, Yancey County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 2026, 1:27 PM EDT for Buncombe County, McDowell County, Yancey County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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 6, 2026, 1:27 PM EDT (17:27 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Buncombe County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Yancey County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:27 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 331 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1868 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 6, 6:30 AM EDT, 6 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 6:30 AM EDT, 6 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 6, 11:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 6, 12:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 6, 1:00 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 6, 1:10 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 6, 9:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	29 min
Sep 6, 10:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Iredell	43 min
Sep 6, 10:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Iredell, Rowan	49 min
Sep 6, 11:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	35 min
Sep 6, 12:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	31 min
Sep 6, 12:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery	43 min
Sep 6, 1:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery	30 min
Sep 6, 1:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	24 min
Sep 6, 1:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mitchell, Yancey	50 min
Sep 6, 1:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Haywood, Henderson, Transylvania	41 min
Sep 6, 1:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	25 min
Sep 6, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	31 min
Sep 6, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, McDowell	44 min
Sep 6, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Cleveland, McDowell, Rutherford	45 min
Sep 6, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	24 min
Sep 6, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	33 min
Sep 6, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Polk, Rutherford	51 min
Sep 6, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	46 min
Sep 6, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson, Polk	52 min
Sep 6, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	79 min
Sep 6, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	30 min
Sep 6, 4:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson, Polk, Rutherford	3 hr
Sep 6, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville, Pickens, Spartanburg	43 min
Sep 6, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	38 min
Sep 6, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Pickens, Spartanburg	64 min
Sep 6, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GSP	Anderson, Greenville, Pickens	59 min
Sep 6, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	32 min
Sep 6, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GSP	Greenville, Laurens	67 min
Sep 6, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester, Union, York	56 min
Sep 6, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	42 min
Sep 6, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	58 min
Sep 6, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	39 min
Sep 6, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	33 min
Sep 6, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	32 min
Sep 6, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	30 min
Sep 6, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	40 min
Sep 6, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Elbert	27 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.