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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 14, 2026Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2026, 12:28 PM EDT for Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 32 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 14, 2026, 12:28 PM EDT (16:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:29 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 235 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 2026-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 84 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 2026-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 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
84 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 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
Jun 14, 1:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson45 min
Jun 14, 1:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCaldwell45 min
Jun 14, 1:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke51 min
Jun 14, 3:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLincoln37 min
Jun 14, 4:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus47 min
Jun 14, 6:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGraham50 min
Jun 14, 11:41 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee34 min
Jun 14, 12:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens50 min
Jun 14, 12:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville39 min
Jun 14, 1:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson50 min
Jun 14, 1:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg49 min
Jun 14, 1:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens53 min
Jun 14, 2:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens58 min
Jun 14, 2:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville42 min
Jun 14, 2:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens53 min
Jun 14, 2:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion44 min
Jun 14, 12:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHart43 min
Jun 14, 1:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPFranklin, Hart57 min
Jun 14, 1:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPElbert, Franklin, Hart43 min
Jun 14, 7:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRabun45 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.