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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 3, 2026Graham County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2026, 4:10 PM EDT for Graham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 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
Jul 3, 2026, 4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2026, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Graham County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 2026-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2053 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 2026-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
2053 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1060 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 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
Jul 3, 2:13 PM EDTHeat AdvisoryGSPAlexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland and 10 more30 hr
Jul 3, 2:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMacon26 min
Jul 3, 3:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMacon41 min
Jul 3, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGraham, Macon, Swain56 min
Jul 3, 4:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGraham23 min
Jul 3, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMcDowell, Yancey44 min
Jul 3, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPJackson, Swain29 min
Jul 3, 5:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAvery23 min
Jul 3, 6:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGraham23 min
Jul 3, 6:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPJackson46 min
Jul 3, 5:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPFranklin37 min

Nearby

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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.