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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2009, 3:09 PM EDT for Iredell 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
- May 26, 2009, 3:09 PM EDT (19:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2009, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Iredell County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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 12:00Z, 7.2 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
- 254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 478 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 26, 2:49 PM EDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:49 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 344 AM EDT TUE MAY 26 2009 GAZ010-017-NCZ062>065-501>510-SCZ001-002-004-005-270745- RABUN-HABERSHAM-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-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS- 344 AM EDT TUE MAY 26 2009 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED TO RELAY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL REPORTS OR REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING. GAZ018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-068>072-082-SCZ003- 006>014-019-270745- STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON- YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM- NORTHERN JACKSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS- UNION NC-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 344 AM EDT TUE MAY 26 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY AND TONIGHT. ANY SHOWERS THAT DEVELOP IN THIS TROPICAL AIRMASS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. ISOLATED FLOODING COULD DEVELOP IN AREAS THAT REPEATEDLY EXPERIENCE SHOWERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. HG
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 26, 11:11 AM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 9:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 111 min |
| May 25, 11:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | McDowell | 47 min |
| May 26, 12:46 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | McDowell | 59 min |
| May 26, 1:30 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Transylvania | 3 hr |
| May 26, 2:04 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Burke | 3 hr |
| May 26, 3:04 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Catawba | 116 min |
| May 26, 3:24 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Alexander | 111 min |
| May 26, 3:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | GSP | Burke, Caldwell, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon and 3 more | 38 hr |
| May 26, 3:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke | 3 hr |
| May 26, 5:10 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Rutherford | 3 hr |
| May 26, 5:17 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Alexander | 118 min |
| May 26, 8:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Alexander, Iredell | 3 hr |
| May 26, 10:11 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cleveland | 3 hr |
| May 26, 6:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Gaston, Lincoln | 105 min |
| May 26, 7:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cleveland | 50 min |
| May 25, 11:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 59 min |
| May 26, 12:35 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Oconee | 55 min |
| May 26, 4:27 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Spartanburg | 2 hr |
| May 26, 8:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 3 hr |
| May 26, 11:18 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee, York | 3 hr |
| May 26, 2:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Oconee | 111 min |
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.