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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 27, 2010Cabarrus County, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2010, 6:19 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: Jul 27, 2010, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2010, 9:15 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 22:19 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, 10.3 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: 1083 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 687 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 26, 7:33 PM EDT, 22 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 7:33 PM EDT, 22 hours 46 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
Jul 26, 8:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mitchell	39 min
Jul 26, 9:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	41 min
Jul 26, 9:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Caldwell	115 min
Jul 26, 9:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	46 min
Jul 26, 9:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	68 min
Jul 26, 9:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mitchell	51 min
Jul 26, 9:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	44 min
Jul 26, 9:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell	41 min
Jul 26, 10:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	53 min
Jul 26, 10:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell	66 min
Jul 26, 10:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	44 min
Jul 26, 10:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Catawba, Iredell	109 min
Jul 26, 10:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	41 min
Jul 26, 11:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln, Rowan	48 min
Jul 26, 11:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Rowan	42 min
Jul 26, 11:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Davie, Rowan	33 min
Jul 27, 8:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	50 min
Jul 27, 8:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Rowan	59 min
Jul 27, 9:06 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	114 min
Jul 27, 1:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	62 min
Jul 27, 1:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	41 min
Jul 27, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell, Rutherford	44 min
Jul 27, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	47 min
Jul 27, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	47 min
Jul 27, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	49 min
Jul 27, 3:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Davie	49 min
Jul 27, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	45 min
Jul 27, 4:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Rowan	119 min
Jul 27, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	62 min
Jul 27, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	40 min
Jul 27, 5:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Rowan	2 hr
Jul 27, 5:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	113 min
Jul 27, 5:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	115 min
Jul 27, 5:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Iredell	109 min
Jul 27, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus	45 min
Jul 27, 6:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Alexander	116 min
Jul 27, 6:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	GSP	Alexander, Cabarrus, Davie, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan and 1 more	10 hr
Jul 27, 6:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	3 hr
Jul 27, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union	62 min
Jul 27, 6:53 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Iredell	3 hr
Jul 26, 8:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	30 min
Jul 26, 8:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	41 min
Jul 27, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	41 min
Jul 27, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	53 min
Jul 27, 3:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	112 min
Jul 27, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	51 min
Jul 27, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester, Union	38 min
Jul 27, 5:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Chester, York	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2010 Every 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.