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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 28, 1997Haywood County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 1997, 2:10 PM EDT for Haywood County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 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: Jul 28, 1997, 2:10 PM EDT (18:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1997, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Haywood County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:11 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 280 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: 912 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1127 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGSP 281812
FFWGSP
NCC087-282015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
210 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...HAYWOOD COUNTY
 
HAYWOOD COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS REPORTS THAT JONATHAN CREEK IN WESTERN
HAYWOOD COUNTY WAS APPROACHING BANKFULL. THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN NEARLY
STATIONARY IN THE AREA...AND THE ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL LIKELY SEND THE
CREEK OUT OF ITS BANKS. OTHER STREAMS IN THE MAGGIE VALLEY AREA MAY
ALSO APPROACH BANKFULL.
 
PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA...ESPECIALLY CAMPERS...SHOULD SEEK
HIGHER GROUND WITHOUT DELAY. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO
FLOODING WHEN WATERS BEGIN TO RISE.
 
BURRUS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 1:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Haywood, Transylvania	66 min
Jul 28, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	42 min
Jul 28, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	61 min
Jul 28, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba	47 min
Jul 28, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk	43 min
Jul 28, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Lincoln	41 min
Jul 28, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Jackson	38 min
Jul 28, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	56 min
Jul 28, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Davie	56 min
Jul 28, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	49 min
Jul 28, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Madison	59 min
Jul 28, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.