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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 13, 2026Lincoln County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 13, 2026, 3:08 PM EDT for Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 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 13, 2026, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2026, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Lincoln County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1148 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 13, 12:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery, Mitchell, Yancey	42 min
Aug 13, 12:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery, Caldwell, Mitchell, Yancey	43 min
Aug 13, 2:11 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union	18 hr
Aug 13, 1:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	51 min
Aug 13, 1:29 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union	30 hr
Aug 13, 1:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	43 min
Aug 13, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	43 min
Aug 13, 2:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	42 min
Aug 13, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	42 min
Aug 13, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	28 min
Aug 13, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Lincoln	38 min
Aug 13, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	52 min
Aug 13, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	47 min
Aug 13, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	43 min
Aug 13, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	41 min
Aug 13, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	46 min
Aug 12, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	42 min
Aug 12, 8:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	43 min
Aug 12, 8:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	41 min
Aug 12, 9:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	45 min
Aug 12, 9:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	39 min
Aug 12, 9:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	51 min
Aug 12, 9:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	29 min
Aug 12, 9:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	37 min
Aug 12, 9:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	50 min
Aug 12, 10:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	50 min
Aug 12, 10:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester, Union	40 min
Aug 12, 10:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	40 min
Aug 12, 10:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	50 min
Aug 12, 11:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	39 min
Aug 12, 11:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Spartanburg	119 min
Aug 12, 11:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	43 min
Aug 12, 11:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Union	111 min
Aug 12, 11:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Spartanburg, Union	2 hr
Aug 13, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	51 min
Aug 13, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	25 min
Aug 13, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	45 min
Aug 13, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	35 min
Aug 13, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Laurens	33 min
Aug 13, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	47 min
Aug 13, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	34 min
Aug 13, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	47 min
Aug 13, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	41 min
Aug 13, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville	31 min
Aug 13, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	35 min
Aug 13, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	38 min
Aug 13, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	29 min
Aug 13, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	27 min
Aug 13, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	45 min
Aug 13, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	39 min

Nearby

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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.