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Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 16, 20086 counties in Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this red flag warning at Apr 16, 2008, 5:27 AM EDT for 6 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Apr 16, 2008, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 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: Apr 16, 2008, 5:27 AM EDT (09:27 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 16, 2008, 1:00 PM EDT
Expired: Apr 16, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:27 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 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 2638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -32 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 
WWUS82 KGSP 160927
RFWGSP

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
527 AM EDT WED APR 16 2008

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-161730-
/O.NEW.KGSP.FW.W.0013.080416T1700Z-080417T0000Z/
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-
527 AM EDT WED APR 16 2008

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM
EDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED
A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON
TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. 

WARM SURFACE TEMPERATURES WILL COMBINE WITH LOW DEW POINTS THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING TO PRODUCE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AT OR
BELOW 25 PERCENT. DRY FUEL MOISTURE LEVELS EXIST ACROSS NORTHEAST
GEORGIA AND THE LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL INCREASE FIRE DANGER
THROUGHOUT AFTERNOON.

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF
STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL
CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.

$$

KRENTZ

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS82 KGSP 161847
RFWGSP

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
247 PM EDT WED APR 16 2008

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-170000-
/O.CON.KGSP.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-080417T0000Z/
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-
247 PM EDT WED APR 16 2008

...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING.

TEMPERATURES IN THE MID AND UPPER 60S WILL COMBINE WITH LOW
DEWPOINT TEMPERATURES TO RESULT IN RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES OF 20
TO 25 PERCENT ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA THROUGH EARLY
EVENING. THESE CONDITIONS WILL COMBINE WITH DRY FUEL MOISTURE
TO ENHANCE FIRE DANGER ACROSS THE AREA. 

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF
STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL
CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.

$$
LANE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 2:43 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	GSP	Rabun	18 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Georgia, 2008 Every red flag warning in 2008

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.