Severe Thunderstorm Warning
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC ยท US
Details
Severe Thunderstorm Warning Issued September 21 At 3:52PM EDT Until September 21 At 4:30PM 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... Southeastern McDowell County in western North Carolina... Southwestern Burke County in western North Carolina... * Until 430 PM EDT. * At 352 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 11 miles southwest of Morganton, or 8 miles south of Glen Alpine, and is nearly stationary.
Hazard
60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Expect damage to trees and power lines.
Locations impacted
Dysartsville and South Mountains State Park.
Instructions
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. 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
- Burke County, NC
- McDowell County, NC
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~58s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M32REQBDG29DNK2YKCPRS9MC
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.ab78b172d3200014e726b52fe0dd26a26113ed31.001.1
- 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.3168
- 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 211952 |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-21T19:52:00-00:00...storm...014DEG...3KT...35.6,-81.82 |
| 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.0354.260921T1952Z-260921T2030Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-21T16:30:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Burke County, NC
- McDowell County, NC
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 037023 |
| SAME | 037111 |
| UGC | NCC023 |
| UGC | NCC111 |
- Polygons
- 35.65,-81.72 35.61,-81.74 35.61,-81.76 35.59,-81.77 35.59,-81.79 35.58,-81.8 35.58,-81.82 35.56,-81.83 35.59,-81.91 35.68,-81.86 35.65,-81.72