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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

September 28, 1996Jackson County, Macon County, North Carolina; Rabun County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 28, 1996, 2:16 PM EDT for Jackson County, Macon County, North Carolina; Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 4 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: Sep 28, 1996, 2:16 PM EDT (18:16 UTC)
Expired: Sep 28, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Rabun County, GA, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 221 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 93 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Sep 28, 2:01 PM EDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 28, 2:01 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 28, 10:57 AM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

SCZ004>014-019-GAZ018-026-028-029-NCZ035>037-056-057-066>072-
082-282100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1056 AM EDT SAT SEP 28 1996

...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY INTO TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA
TODAY AHEAD OF A VERY STRONG WEATHER SYSTEM.  THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE
WEATHER APPEARS TO BE SOUTH AND EAST OF I-85 IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND EAST
OF I-77 IN NORTH CAROLINA WHERE THE AFTERNOON SUN BREAKING THROUGH THE
CLOUDS WILL HEAT THE ATMOSPHERE QUICKLY.

THUNDERSTORMS COULD BEGIN BY EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON.  WIND FIELDS IN
THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE SUGGEST THE POSSIBILITY OF VERY STRONG DAMAGING
WINDS WITH SOME OF THE STORMS...MAYBE EVEN A FEW TORNADOES.

NO SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES HAVE BEEN ISSUED AT THIS TIME BUT COULD BE
REQUIRED LATER.

SKYWARN SPOTTER GROUPS IN THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL CAROLINAS SHOULD BE
PREPARED TO ACTIVATE TODAY.  LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS...WATCHES...OR
WARNINGS.

JONES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 28, 2:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Haywood, Transylvania	4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1996 Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 1996 Every 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.