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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 355, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT for Henderson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 21, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2026, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Henderson County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 287 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
- 587 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 1:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 27 min |
| Sep 21, 1:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 27 min |
| Sep 21, 1:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 2:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery | 34 min |
| Sep 21, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, McDowell, Mitchell | 43 min |
| Sep 21, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell | 38 min |
| Sep 21, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander | 37 min |
| Sep 21, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell | 45 min |
| Sep 21, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 28 min |
| Sep 21, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 29 min |
| Sep 21, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Yancey | 34 min |
| Sep 21, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 44 min |
| Sep 21, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 46 min |
| Sep 21, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Lincoln | 34 min |
| Sep 21, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba | 45 min |
| Sep 21, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 26 min |
| Sep 21, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 51 min |
| Sep 21, 6:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 36 min |
| Sep 21, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rabun | 28 min |
| Sep 21, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 48 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.