Severe Thunderstorm Warning
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC ยท US
Details
Severe Thunderstorm Warning Issued September 20 At 5:59PM EDT Until September 20 At 6:45PM EDT By NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC
- Event
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Immediate
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Shelter
Description
Overview
SVRGSP The National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... East central Laurens County in Upstate South Carolina... Southwestern Union County in Upstate South Carolina... * Until 645 PM EDT. * At 559 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 14 miles south of Union, or near Whitmire, moving southwest at 20 mph.
Hazard
60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Expect damage to trees and power lines.
Locations impacted
Clinton, Joanna, Rose Hill State Park, Kinards, and Sedalia.
Instructions
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Please report damaging winds, hail, or flooding to the National Weather Service by calling toll free, 1, 800, 2 6 7, 8 1 0 1, or by posting on our Facebook page, or post it to X using hashtag nwsgsp. Your message should describe the event and the specific location where it occurred.
Affected areas
- Laurens County, SC
- Union County, SC
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~1m12s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M30DAZRQ6JYEP39SNN6W7XRD
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.af0b42d51cb558a6f786b84695cbd2929cdb5173.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC
- AWIPS ID
- CAPGSP
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.6743
- WMO heading
- XOUS52
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 52
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SVR |
| NationalWeatherService | SVW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SVRGSP |
| WMOidentifier | WUUS52 KGSP 202159 |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-20T21:59:00-00:00...storm...048DEG...16KT...34.52,-81.68 |
| windThreat | RADAR INDICATED |
| maxWindGust | 60 MPH |
| hailThreat | RADAR INDICATED |
| maxHailSize | 0.75 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KGSP.SV.W.0350.260920T2159Z-260920T2245Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-20T18:45:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Laurens County, SC
- Union County, SC
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 045059 |
| SAME | 045087 |
| UGC | SCC059 |
| UGC | SCC087 |
- Polygons
- 34.51,-81.95 34.63,-81.63 34.54,-81.57 34.51,-81.6 34.53,-81.62 34.52,-81.63 34.53,-81.64 34.52,-81.65 34.46,-81.7 34.45,-81.72 34.38,-81.78 34.37,-81.78 34.36,-81.79 34.51,-81.95