Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Watches in 2008
Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood watch at Sep 5, 2008, 2:34 PM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Sep 5, 2008, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2008, 2:34 PM EDT (18:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 5, 2008, 11:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2008, 8:07 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Davie County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Union County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 93 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2:50 PM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union | 17 hr |
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.