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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 2010, 2:11 AM EDT for Catawba County, North Carolina. It was in force for 112 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2010, 2:11 AM EDT (06:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2010, 4:03 AM EDT
- In force
- 112 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Catawba County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:13 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Jul 17, 8:19 PM EDT, 5 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 8:19 PM EDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 18, 1:46 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 44 min |
| Jul 18, 12:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 12:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 55 min |
| Jul 18, 1:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery | 26 min |
| Jul 18, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 67 min |
| Jul 18, 2:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 52 min |
| Jul 18, 2:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 50 min |
| Jul 18, 2:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 57 min |
| Jul 18, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 20 min |
| Jul 18, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 41 min |
| Jul 18, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 30 min |
| Jul 18, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 23 min |
| Jul 18, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba | 23 min |
| Jul 18, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 27 min |
| Jul 18, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander | 24 min |
| Jul 18, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 34 min |
| Jul 18, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell | 38 min |
| Jul 18, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 35 min |
| Jul 18, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 24 min |
| Jul 18, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 37 min |
| Jul 18, 6:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 26 min |
| Jul 18, 12:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Oconee, Pickens | 66 min |
| Jul 18, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 34 min |
| Jul 18, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 24 min |
| Jul 18, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 36 min |
| Jul 18, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, York | 51 min |
| Jul 18, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 29 min |
| Jul 18, 1:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rabun | 32 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.