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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 4, 2026Elbert County, Hart County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2026, 4:14 PM EDT for Elbert County, Hart County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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: Aug 4, 2026, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2026, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

Counties Elbert County, GA, Hart County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 1083 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 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
Aug 4, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	35 min
Aug 4, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	37 min
Aug 4, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	23 min
Aug 4, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	33 min
Aug 4, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	25 min
Aug 4, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Swain	34 min
Aug 4, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mitchell	33 min
Aug 4, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	29 min
Aug 4, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham	32 min
Aug 4, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	31 min
Aug 4, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	30 min
Aug 4, 4:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Burke	3 hr
Aug 4, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham	36 min
Aug 4, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	37 min
Aug 4, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	26 min
Aug 4, 12:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	28 min
Aug 4, 1:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	23 min
Aug 4, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	31 min
Aug 4, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Pickens	24 min
Aug 4, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	35 min
Aug 4, 4:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Spartanburg	3 hr
Aug 4, 6:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	35 min
Aug 4, 6:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	3 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2026 Every special weather statement in 2026

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.