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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 6, 2026Cleveland County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2026, 6:21 PM EDT for Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 24 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 6, 2026, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2026, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Cleveland County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 318 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: 2265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 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 5, 11:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	55 min
Aug 6, 12:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	57 min
Aug 6, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	27 min
Aug 6, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	57 min
Aug 6, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston, Lincoln	67 min
Aug 6, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Caldwell	44 min
Aug 6, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Jackson, Transylvania	60 min
Aug 6, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	30 min
Aug 6, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	33 min
Aug 6, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	32 min
Aug 6, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	29 min
Aug 6, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	28 min
Aug 6, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Yancey	33 min
Aug 6, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	31 min
Aug 6, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	29 min
Aug 6, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	25 min
Aug 6, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Polk	66 min
Aug 6, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Davie, Iredell, Rowan	31 min
Aug 6, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	29 min
Aug 6, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	26 min
Aug 6, 6:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	5 hr
Aug 6, 6:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln	3 hr
Aug 6, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	13 min
Aug 6, 7:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	25 min
Aug 5, 8:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	30 min
Aug 5, 8:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	32 min
Aug 5, 8:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	31 min
Aug 5, 11:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	46 min
Aug 6, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	23 min
Aug 6, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	29 min
Aug 6, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	25 min
Aug 6, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	24 min
Aug 6, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	26 min
Aug 6, 6:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	37 min
Aug 6, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	27 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.