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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 25, 1996Anderson County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1996, 3:50 AM EDT for Anderson County, South 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
May 25, 1996, 3:50 AM EDT (07:50 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1996, 8:45 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Anderson County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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 1996-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2447 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2447 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

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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
May 24, 8:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCaldwell49 min
May 24, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLincoln46 min
May 24, 8:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke51 min
May 24, 9:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCaldwell31 min
May 24, 10:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland, Gaston41 min
May 25, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMcDowell, Rutherford51 min
May 25, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRutherford28 min
May 25, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland51 min
May 24, 10:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg43 min
May 24, 11:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPChester45 min
May 24, 11:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg45 min
May 25, 12:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville55 min
May 25, 12:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg44 min
May 25, 12:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion69 min
May 25, 1:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPickens44 min
May 25, 2:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville, Greenwood69 min
May 25, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee45 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.