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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 14, 2026Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2026, 3:08 PM EDT for Mecklenburg 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 14, 2026, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2026, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Mecklenburg County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 1946 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 958 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 14, 12:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Yancey	33 min
Aug 14, 12:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	25 min
Aug 14, 1:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	41 min
Aug 14, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	33 min
Aug 14, 1:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Polk	40 min
Aug 14, 1:54 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union	30 hr
Aug 14, 1:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	51 min
Aug 14, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	47 min
Aug 14, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	42 min
Aug 14, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	37 min
Aug 14, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	50 min
Aug 14, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	46 min
Aug 14, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	50 min
Aug 14, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	41 min
Aug 14, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	34 min
Aug 14, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	43 min
Aug 14, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	47 min
Aug 14, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln	44 min
Aug 14, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	35 min
Aug 14, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Iredell	45 min
Aug 14, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	46 min
Aug 14, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Iredell, Rowan	48 min
Aug 14, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	51 min
Aug 14, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	36 min
Aug 14, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	47 min
Aug 14, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	38 min
Aug 14, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	41 min
Aug 14, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg	38 min
Aug 14, 3:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	36 min
Aug 14, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	32 min
Aug 14, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	44 min
Aug 14, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	36 min
Aug 14, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville	43 min
Aug 14, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	40 min
Aug 14, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	36 min
Aug 14, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	44 min
Aug 14, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	30 min
Aug 14, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	44 min
Aug 14, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	23 min
Aug 14, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	42 min
Aug 14, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham	40 min
Aug 14, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	41 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.