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Flood Watch 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

December 21, 200614 counties in North Carolina; Habersham County, Rabun County, Stephens County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flood watch at Dec 21, 2006, 3:17 PM EST for 14 counties in North Carolina; Habersham County, Rabun County, Stephens County, Georgia. It took effect at Dec 22, 2006, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 21, 2006, 3:17 PM EST (20:17 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 22, 2006, 6:00 AM EST
Expired
Dec 22, 2006, 8:30 PM EST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Flood severity
None

Counties Habersham County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Yancey County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 290 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 12:00Z on 2006-12-21Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2006-12-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 259 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
673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
312 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.