Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Watches in 2009
Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood watch at Jun 15, 2009, 11:49 PM EDT for 11 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2009, 11:49 PM EDT (03:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2009, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Alexander County, NC, Avery County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Davie County, NC, Iredell County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Yancey County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:49 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 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 976 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at Jun 15, 11:13 PM EDT, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 11:13 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 5:37 AM EDT, 18 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 537 AM EDT MON JUN 15 2009 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-161000- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER- IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA- ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA- HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC- 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-CHEROKEE-YORK- ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 537 AM EDT MON JUN 15 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE... PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND OR LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE AS WELL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST FROM TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND OR LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell, Rowan | 53 min |
| Jun 16, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 6:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Rutherford | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Pickens | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 6:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee, Pickens | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 6:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union | 42 min |
| Jun 16, 7:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Union | 14 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2009Every flash flood watch in 2009
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.