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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 18, 2010Catawba County, North Carolina

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2010-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 154 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2010-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 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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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 17, 8:54 PM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 1:46 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPCatawba, Iredell44 min
Jul 18, 12:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCaldwell45 min
Jul 18, 12:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCaldwell55 min
Jul 18, 1:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAvery26 min
Jul 18, 1:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk32 min
Jul 18, 1:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPolk, Rutherford67 min
Jul 18, 2:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCaldwell52 min
Jul 18, 2:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson50 min
Jul 18, 2:18 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPHenderson, Polk57 min
Jul 18, 2:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson20 min
Jul 18, 2:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe41 min
Jul 18, 3:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMcDowell30 min
Jul 18, 3:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke23 min
Jul 18, 3:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAlexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba23 min
Jul 18, 4:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell27 min
Jul 18, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAlexander24 min
Jul 18, 4:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPDavie34 min
Jul 18, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPIredell38 min
Jul 18, 5:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPDavie35 min
Jul 18, 5:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGaston24 min
Jul 18, 6:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston, Mecklenburg37 min
Jul 18, 6:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCleveland26 min
Jul 18, 12:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville, Oconee, Pickens66 min
Jul 18, 4:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCherokee34 min
Jul 18, 5:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson24 min
Jul 18, 5:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCherokee36 min
Jul 18, 5:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson32 min
Jul 18, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee, York51 min
Jul 18, 6:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCherokee29 min
Jul 18, 1:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRabun32 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2010Every flash flood warning in 2010

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.