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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 5, 2009Cabarrus County, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2009, 12:04 PM EDT for Cabarrus County, Mecklenburg 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: Jun 5, 2009, 12:04 PM EDT (16:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2009, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:04 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Jun 5, 10:14 AM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 10:14 AM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 5:51 AM EDT, 6 hours 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 9:34 AM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 10:36 AM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 8:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg	3 hr
Jun 5, 7:55 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	2 hr
Jun 5, 9:04 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	3 hr
Jun 5, 10:16 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan	119 min
Jun 5, 2:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Burke	119 min
Jun 5, 3:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg	3 hr
Jun 5, 4:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cleveland	63 min
Jun 5, 4:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Polk	52 min
Jun 5, 12:45 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Oconee	2 hr
Jun 5, 4:57 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Laurens	2 hr
Jun 5, 5:46 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Spartanburg, Union	119 min
Jun 5, 7:16 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cherokee, York	119 min
Jun 5, 3:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg	60 min
Jun 5, 3:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Oconee	53 min
Jun 5, 5:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Spartanburg	62 min
Jun 5, 6:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens	59 min
Jun 5, 6:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	York	56 min
Jun 5, 4:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Rabun	52 min
Jun 5, 5:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Rabun	62 min
Jun 5, 6:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Habersham	58 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.