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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2026, 5:16 PM EDT for Alexander County, Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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 22, 2026, 5:16 PM EDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2026, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Alexander County, NC, Caldwell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 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 22, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rutherford | 47 min |
| Jun 22, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 43 min |
| Jun 22, 6:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 26 min |
| Jun 22, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 23 min |
| Jun 22, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 26 min |
| Jun 22, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 31 min |
| Jun 22, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens, Union | 41 min |
| Jun 22, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Newberry | 27 min |
| Jun 22, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Habersham, Stephens | 31 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.