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Red Flag Warning 15, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this red flag warning at May 6, 2008, 3:19 AM EDT for 6 counties in Georgia. It took effect at May 6, 2008, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 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
- May 6, 2008, 3:19 AM EDT (07:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 6, 2008, 10:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 6, 2008, 8:19 PM EDT
- In force
- 10 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 07:20 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, 7.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3078 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS82 KGSP 060719 RFWGSP RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 319 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 2008 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-061530- /O.NEW.KGSP.FW.W.0015.080506T1400Z-080507T0000Z/ RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT- 319 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. A DRY AIRMASS WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION BEHIND A COLD FRONT TODAY. BY THIS AFTERNOON...HUMIDITY VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL TO BETWEEN 20 AND 25 PERCENT OVER MUCH OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THIS COMBINED WITH LOW FUEL MOISTURE WILL RESULT IN HEIGHTENED FIRE DANGER BEGINNING LATE THIS MORNING AND LASTING UNTIL SUNSET. ON A POSITIVE NOTE...WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME NEARLY CALM THIS 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. $$ MCAVOY
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS82 KGSP 062004 RFWGSP RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 404 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 2008 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-070100- /O.EXT.KGSP.FW.W.0015.000000T0000Z-080507T0100Z/ RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT- 404 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING. WINDS ARE LIGHT BUT RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW 25 PERCENT OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA THROUGH EARLY EVENING. WITH FUEL MOISTURE BELOW 10 PERCENT THE HIGH FIRE DANGER WILL CONTINUE UNTIL SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
000 WWUS82 KGSP 070019 RFWGSP RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 819 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 2008 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-070130- /O.CAN.KGSP.FW.W.0015.000000T0000Z-080507T0100Z/ RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT- 819 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. RELATIVE HUMIDITY HAS RISEN ABOVE 25 PERCENT SO THE WARNING IS CANCELLED. $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at May 6, 2:20 AM EDT, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:20 AM EDT, 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 220 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 2008 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE REGION TODAY. THE HIGH WILL MOVE OFFSHORE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A VIGOROUS AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK JUST NORTH OF THE REGION ON THURSDAY NIGHT. A COLD FRONT TRAILING THE LOW WILL BECOME STATIONARY OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE REGION TODAY...BRINGING WITH IT A MUCH DRIER AIRMASS. SKIES SHOULD BE SUNNY IN THE EARLY GOING. HOWEVER...GFS CROSS SECTIONS SHOW A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE STREAMING ACROSS THE REGION DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. I/LL STILL KEEP SKIES MOSTLY SUNNY...BUT THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR QUITE A BIT MORE IN THE WAY OF HIGH LEVEL OPAQUE CLOUD COVER THAN WHAT I NOW HAVE IN THE GRIDS. && .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/... AS OF 130 AM TUESDAY...DESPITE RETURN FLOW INCREASING DWPTS AND DEVELOPING INTO A WEAKLY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...WILL CONTINUE TO BANK ON SE CONUS UPPER RIDGING TO SUPPRESS ANY DEEP CONVECTIVE THREAT ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING. THE COMBINATION OF DEVELOPING UPPER DIFFLUENT FLOW DOWNSTREAM OF APPROACHING S/WV...MOISTENING DEEP RETURN FLOW AND THEN POTENTIAL FOR VORT ENERGY TO EJECT NE FROM SAID S/WV COULD STILL PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FEW SHOWERS OVERNIGHT AND INTO THURSDAY MORNING. 06/00 UTC SHORT RANGE MODEL MASS FIELDS IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN INCREASING LARGE SCALE FORCING AND DEEP MOISTURE...ESPECIALLY ACRS THE MTNS THU AFTERNOON AND INHERITED ROBUST POPS WILL REMAIN. FCST SNDGS YIELD A POTENTIALLY MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS DEVELOPING EAST OF THE MTNS IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FAVORABLE WET BULB ZERO HEIGHTS WITHIN A MODERATELY SHEARED ENVIRONMENT COULD SUPPORT SVR MULTICELL DEVELOPMENT. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... AS OF 130 AM TUESDAY...06/00 UTC OP NAM/GFS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT AT F84...ADVERTISING THAT DEEP MOISTURE BAND WILL BE MOVING EAST OF THE CWFA FRIDAY MORNING. DESPITE LIKELIHOOD THAT SFC FRONT WILL LAY OVER NEAR OR THRU THE CWFA AS IT BECOMES PARALLEL TO UPPER FLOW...A PERIOD OF DRYING AND DWM IS PROBABLE BEHIND WAVE WHICH SHOULD RESULT IN RATHER QUIET WX CONDITIONS ON FRIDAY. STILL EXPECTING FRONT TO REACTIVATE ON SATURDAY AS LLVL UPGLIDE FLOW DEVELOPS WITH UNSETTLED CONDITIONS CONTINUING INTO SUNDAY AS SHARPER COLD FRONT WITH MODERATE UPPER SUPPORT SWINGS ACROSS. IF FASTER OP GFS TIMING WORKS OUT...DEEP LAYER DRYING WOULD ALREADY BE OVERSPREADING THE REGION SUNDAY NIGHT...SETTING THE STAGE FOR A DRY MONDAY. && .AVIATION /06Z TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/... A CONSIDERABLY DRIER AIRMASS WILL FILTER INTO THE REGION THIS MORNING. PRIOR TO ABOUT 0900 UTC...HOWEVER...LLVL RH PROFILES WILL SUPPORT A LITTLE FOG AT KCLT. I KEPT THE VSBY JUST SHY OF MVFR...BUT THE VSBY MAY DROP TO 4 OT 5 MILES FOR A COUPLE HOURS EARLY ON. OTHERWISE...A FAIR DAY WITH GENERALLY NORTHERLY WINDS. LATE IN THE AFTERNOON WINDS WILL BEGIN TO TURN OUT OF THE SOUTH...BUT THEY MAY JUST GO CALM. OUTLOOK... HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE AREA WILL MAINTAIN VFR CONDITIONS THROUGH THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY. MOISTURE WILL INCREASE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS THE HIGH MOVES OFFSHORE. THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THAT IFR OR MVFR CLOUDS WILL DEVELOP OVERNIGHT AND POSSIBLY SOME FOG. REDUCED CIGS AND VSBYS ARE POSSIBLE IN THURSDAY AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF APPROACHING FRONT. THE FRONT WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION FRIDAY AND SATURDAY RESULTING IN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND MORNING RESTRICTIONS IN FOG AND POSSIBLE LOW CLOUDS. && .FIRE WEATHER... WHILE I STILL NEED TO FINISH COLLABORATING WITH THE ATLANTA FORECAST OFFICE...THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THAT A RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE NEEDED OVER NE GA TODAY. RH/S SHOULD FALL INTO THE LOW 20S THIS AFTERNOON FOR ABOUT 4 HOURS...AND 10 HR FUEL MOISTURE WAS RUNNING 8 TO 10 PERCENT YDAY. RH/S WILL ALSO BE LOW ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. MODEL SOUNDINGS IMPLY THAT VERY DRY AIR COULD MIX DOWN INTO THE MOUNTAINS. IF THIS HAPPENS...RH/S WOULD BE DRIVEN INTO THE TEENS BOTH IN THE VALLEYS AND AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS IN THE NC MTNS. I DON/T QUITE HAVE THIS IN THE GRIDS...BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT WILL NEED TO BE WATCHED CLOSELY. FORTUNATELY WINDS WILL BE VERY LIGHT THIS AFTERNOON. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...MCAVOY NEAR TERM...MCAVOY SHORT TERM...CSH LONG TERM...CSH AVIATION...MCAVOY FIRE WEATHER...MCAVOY
Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 9:14 PM EDT, 6 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 914 PM EDT MON MAY 5 2008 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-501>510- SCZ001>007-010>013-019-070115- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-MADISON-YANCEY- MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON- SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-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-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC- GREENWOOD- 914 PM EDT MON MAY 5 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ035>037-056-057-068>072-082-SCZ008-009-014-070115- ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON- MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC-CHEROKEE-YORK-CHESTER- 914 PM EDT MON MAY 5 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE EASTERN PART OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA...UNTIL MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 5, 9:38 PM EDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 938 PM EDT MON MAY 5 2008 SCZ014-060245- CHESTER- 938 PM EDT MON MAY 5 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY THROUGH 1045 PM EDT... AT 936 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF BLACKSTOCK...OR 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHESTER...MOVING SOUTH AT 17 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... CORNWELL BY 945 PM. BLACKSTOCK BY 955 PM EDT. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. KRENTZ
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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.