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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 6, 1996Franklin County, Hart County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Mar 6, 1996, 9:03 AM EST for Franklin County, Hart County, Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 1996, 9:03 AM EST (14:03 UTC)
Expired
Mar 6, 1996, 3:00 PM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, GA, Hart County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 330 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1996-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 36 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1996-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
36 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 6, 2:31 AM EST, 6 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 2:31 AM EST, 6 hours 32 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 10:29 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPAbbeville, Greenwood6 hr
Mar 6, 9:03 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPHabersham, Stephens6 hr
Mar 6, 10:29 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPElbert6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.