Special Weather Statement
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC ยท US
Details
A Thunderstorm With Frequent Lightning Will Impact Southeastern Transylvania...Northwestern Greenville And North Central Pickens Counties Until 400 PM EDT
- Event
- Special Weather Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
At 336 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a thunderstorm with frequent lightning 7 miles south of Brevard, or 4 miles west of Caesars Head State Park, moving south at 5 mph. Locations to be impacted include... Table Rock State Park, Caesars Head State Park, Jones Gap State Park, Dupont State Forest, Jocassee Gorges, Connestee, Sassafras Mountain, Rocky Bottom, and Cedar Mountain.
Instructions
Frequent lightning is occurring with this storm. If outdoors, try to get indoors or into a hard topped vehicle. Otherwise, stay away from open areas and isolated high objects such as trees. When indoors, stay away from windows and doors and avoid using wired electronic devices. Do not take a shower or bath. Try to unplug unnecessary appliances before the storm approaches.
Affected areas
- Transylvania County, NC
- Pickens Mountains
- Greenville Mountains
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~48s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M3054DJ4WA8C4EQKRBWE8MDS
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.d80c0faf273c9330025714e752ba34784090b8c2.001.1
- 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.2592
- 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 | SPS |
| NationalWeatherService | SPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SPSGSP |
| WMOidentifier | WWUS82 KGSP 201936 |
| NWSheadline | A THUNDERSTORM WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN TRANSYLVANIA...NORTHWESTERN GREENVILLE AND NORTH CENTRAL PICKENS COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM EDT |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-20T19:36:00-00:00...storm...358DEG...6KT...35.13,-82.7 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Transylvania County, NC
- Pickens Mountains
- Greenville Mountains
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 037175 |
| SAME | 045077 |
| SAME | 045045 |
| UGC | NCZ064 |
| UGC | SCZ102 |
| UGC | SCZ103 |
- Polygons
- 35.19,-82.81 35.2,-82.6 35.15,-82.59 35.15,-82.58 35.07,-82.56 35.07,-82.57 35.06,-82.57 35.06,-82.59 35.05,-82.6 35.04,-82.68 35.03,-82.69 35.01,-82.78 35.02,-82.82 35.19,-82.81