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Red Flag Warning 17, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this red flag warning at May 8, 2010, 3:40 AM EDT for 6 counties in Georgia. It took effect at May 8, 2010, 9:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 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
- May 8, 2010, 3:40 AM EDT (07:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 8, 2010, 9:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 8, 2010, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:46 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1482 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:30 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba and 18 more | 18 hr |
| May 8, 2:44 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | GSP | Avery, Mitchell, Yancey | 18 hr |
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.