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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 18, 2026Henderson County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2026, 7:21 PM EDT for Henderson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 18, 2026, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Henderson County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 242 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1706 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1297 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 2:19 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	GSP	Union	18 hr
Jul 18, 12:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	28 min
Jul 18, 12:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	32 min
Jul 18, 12:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	40 min
Jul 18, 12:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	27 min
Jul 18, 1:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	29 min
Jul 18, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	27 min
Jul 18, 1:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	36 min
Jul 18, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	31 min
Jul 18, 1:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	23 min
Jul 18, 1:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	36 min
Jul 18, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	35 min
Jul 18, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	28 min
Jul 18, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	32 min
Jul 18, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	31 min
Jul 18, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Cleveland, McDowell, Rutherford	43 min
Jul 18, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell, McDowell	42 min
Jul 18, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln	39 min
Jul 18, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Caldwell	41 min
Jul 18, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Iredell	54 min
Jul 18, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	45 min
Jul 18, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Iredell	48 min
Jul 18, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	23 min
Jul 18, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	42 min
Jul 18, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	41 min
Jul 18, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	34 min
Jul 18, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Jackson	39 min
Jul 18, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	32 min
Jul 18, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	39 min
Jul 18, 7:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	3 hr
Jul 17, 11:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	15 min
Jul 18, 12:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	26 min
Jul 18, 1:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	29 min
Jul 18, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	34 min
Jul 18, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Stephens	35 min
Jul 18, 7:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Hart	46 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.