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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2026, 7:08 PM EDT for Alexander County, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 19 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
- Jun 12, 2026, 7:08 PM EDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2026, 7:27 PM EDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Alexander County, NC, Iredell County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 912 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 894 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 29 min |
| Jun 12, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk, Rutherford | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rutherford | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 54 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.