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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

September 20, 2026Transylvania County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Sep 20, 2026, 2:48 PM EDT for Transylvania County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 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: Sep 20, 2026, 2:48 PM EDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired: Sep 20, 2026, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Transylvania County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 246 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: 169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 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
Sep 19, 10:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	3 hr
Sep 20, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	35 min
Sep 20, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	25 min
Sep 20, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	26 min
Sep 20, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	24 min
Sep 20, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	28 min
Sep 20, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	27 min
Sep 20, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	25 min
Sep 20, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	31 min
Sep 20, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	43 min
Sep 20, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	36 min
Sep 20, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	28 min
Sep 20, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	28 min
Sep 20, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	24 min
Sep 20, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	28 min
Sep 20, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	42 min
Sep 20, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	25 min
Sep 20, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	46 min
Sep 20, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens, Union	46 min
Sep 20, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	30 min
Sep 20, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	41 min
Sep 20, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	44 min
Sep 20, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens, Spartanburg	34 min
Sep 20, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	43 min
Sep 20, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	35 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.