Severe Thunderstorm Warning
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC ยท US
Details
Severe Thunderstorm Warning Issued September 18 At 8:08PM EDT Until September 18 At 9:00PM EDT By NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC
- Event
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Immediate
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Shelter
Description
Overview
SVRGSP The National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northeastern Swain County in western North Carolina... * Until 900 PM EDT. * At 807 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles southeast of Gatlinburg, or near Smoky Mountains-Newfound Gap, moving south at 15 mph.
Hazard
60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Minor hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to trees and power lines.
Locations impacted
Smoky Mountains-Deep Creek, Smoky Mountains-Newfound Gap, Smoky Mountains-Oconaluftee, Smoky Mountains-Kuwohi, Cherokee, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Smoky Mountains-Balsam Mountain, and B.R. Parkway-Smoky Mountains To Balsam Gap.
Instructions
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Please report damaging winds, hail, or flooding to the National Weather Service by calling toll free, 1, 800, 2 6 7, 8 1 0 1, or by posting on our Facebook page, or post it to X using hashtag nwsgsp. Your message should describe the event and the specific location where it occurred.
Affected areas
- Swain County, NC
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~28s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2VFWDG7XACMJ097TW8B8KEC
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.2348d57304b16fc5cfa4b2381962a6160c7c4342.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC
- AWIPS ID
- CAPGSP
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.111
- WMO heading
- XOUS52
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 52
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SVR |
| NationalWeatherService | SVW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SVRGSP |
| WMOidentifier | WUUS52 KGSP 190008 |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-19T00:07:00-00:00...storm...006DEG...13KT...35.65,-83.38 |
| windThreat | RADAR INDICATED |
| maxWindGust | 60 MPH |
| hailThreat | RADAR INDICATED |
| maxHailSize | 1.00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KGSP.SV.W.0345.260919T0008Z-260919T0100Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-18T21:00:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Swain County, NC
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 037173 |
| UGC | NCC173 |
- Polygons
- 35.56,-83.5 35.61,-83.45 35.61,-83.43 35.62,-83.4 35.65,-83.36 35.66,-83.35 35.67,-83.33 35.66,-83.3 35.68,-83.29 35.69,-83.25 35.52,-83.22 35.51,-83.26 35.49,-83.29 35.43,-83.52 35.56,-83.5