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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

November 15, 2006Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Nov 15, 2006, 11:08 PM EST for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 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: Nov 15, 2006, 11:08 PM EST (04:08 UTC)
Expired: Nov 16, 2006, 2:15 AM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mecklenburg County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:10 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1176 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 394 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 496 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Nov 15, 9:53 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 9:53 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 15, 2:35 PM EST, 8 hours 33 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
235 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-161945-
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER-
IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-
CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-
TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-
CABARRUS-UNION NC-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL-
BURKE MOUNTAINS-GREATER BURKE-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL-
RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS-
EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-
GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-
GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-
LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD-
235 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. AHEAD OF
THE FRONT STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. DAMAGING WIND
GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA AND
GEORGIA MOUNTAINS. VERY WINDY TO WINDY CONDITIONS ARE ALSO
EXPECTED IN THE ADJACENT FOOTHILLS. FOR COMPLETE DETAILS ON THE
WIND POTENTIAL...PLEASE SEE THE LATEST URGENT WEATHER
MESSAGE...CAENPWGSP.

WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO EXPECTED
WITH THE COLD FRONT. HEAVY RAIN WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS
AND FOOTHILLS...WITH RAINFALL TOTALS UP TO 4 INCHES POSSIBLE.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN MANY
PIEDMONT LOCATIONS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES ACROSS THE
MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FLOOD WATCH
STATEMENT...CAEFFAGSP...FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS.

FINALLY...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR TONIGHT AS THE
FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST SEVERE
WEATHER OUTLOOK SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CAESPSGSP...FOR
ADDITIONAL DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF SNOW ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE
NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS THURSDAY NIGHT. VERY LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS
ARE POSSIBLE AT THE HIGHEST ELEVATIONS...BUT A RAIN OR SNOW MIX IS
MORE LIKELY ACROSS MOST OF THE MOUNTAIN TERRAIN.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT.

HG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 10:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	53 min
Nov 15, 11:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Union	67 min
Nov 15, 11:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell	32 min
Nov 16, 6:07 AM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more	12 hr
Nov 15, 9:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	31 min
Nov 15, 9:27 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Union	48 min
Nov 15, 9:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	48 min
Nov 15, 9:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester, York	61 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2006 Every flash flood warning in 2006

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.