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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 29, 1996Haywood County, Transylvania County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Apr 29, 1996, 9:51 PM EDT for Haywood County, Transylvania County, North Carolina. It was in force for 5 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
Apr 29, 1996, 9:51 PM EDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 1996, 3:00 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Haywood County, NC, Transylvania County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 268 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -165 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 9:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPJackson, Macon5 hr
Apr 30, 1:09 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg36 min
Apr 30, 1:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion46 min
Apr 30, 1:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus, Rowan48 min
Apr 29, 8:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPFranklin, Stephens34 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 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.