Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2013
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jan 17, 2013, 2:51 PM EST for Greenville County, South 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
- Jan 17, 2013, 2:51 PM EST (19:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2013, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Greenville County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 466 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 87 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jan 17, 1:05 PM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 1:05 PM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 17, 11:32 AM EST, 3 hours 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1132 AM EST THU JAN 17 2013 GAZ018-026-028-SCZ004>007-010-181645- STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS- GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-ANDERSON- 1132 AM EST THU JAN 17 2013 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM EST FRIDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. GAZ010-017-SCZ001>003-181645- RABUN-HABERSHAM-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- 1132 AM EST THU JAN 17 2013 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. NCZ033-048>050-052-053-064-065-501>507-509-181645- AVERY-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-TRANSYLVANIA- HENDERSON-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL-BURKE MOUNTAINS- GREATER BURKE-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL- RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-POLK MOUNTAINS- 1132 AM EST THU JAN 17 2013 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. WINTER STORM WARNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. NCZ036-037-056-057-068>072-181645- IREDELL-DAVIE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG- CABARRUS- 1132 AM EST THU JAN 17 2013 ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM EST FRIDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER STORM WARNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. NCZ051-058-059-062-063-181645- SWAIN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON- 1132 AM EST THU JAN 17 2013 ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT ABOVE 3500 FEET... ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT BELOW 3500 FEET... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. WINTER STORM WARNING. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. NCZ035-508-510-181645- ALEXANDER-GREATER RUTHERFORD-EASTERN POLK- 1132 AM EST THU JAN 17 2013 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM EST FRIDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. WINTER STORM WARNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. NCZ082-SCZ008-009-181645- UNION NC-CHEROKEE-YORK- 1132 AM EST THU JAN 17 2013 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM EST FRIDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. GAZ029-SCZ011>014-019-181645- ELBERT-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 1132 AM EST THU JAN 17 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AS TEMPERATURES FALL BELOW FREEZING LATE TONIGHT...BLACK ICE IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ON ROADS ACROSS THE AREA. ALSO...SOME LOCATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN UPSTATE AND LOWER GEORGIA PIEDMONT MAY SEE A FEW FLAKES OF SNOW AS PRECIPITATION TAPERS OFF LATE THIS EVENING. LITTLE OR NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. ARK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 10:13 AM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Madison | 12 hr |
| Jan 17, 10:13 AM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Swain | 12 hr |
| Jan 17, 10:13 AM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Haywood | 12 hr |
| Jan 17, 2:14 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 3 hr |
| Jan 17, 2:31 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Haywood | 6 hr |
| Jan 17, 3:01 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 6 hr |
| Jan 17, 4:30 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rutherford | 2 hr |
| Jan 17, 5:13 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba | 107 min |
| Jan 17, 5:30 PM EST | River Flood Warning | GSP | Madison | 44 hr |
| Jan 17, 5:30 PM EST | River Flood Warning | GSP | Swain | 25 hr |
| Jan 17, 5:44 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 106 min |
| Jan 17, 6:34 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe | 12 hr |
| Jan 17, 1:01 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville | 3 hr |
| Jan 17, 2:38 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 3 hr |
| Jan 17, 5:48 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 2 hr |
| Jan 17, 6:03 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville | 9 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2013Every flash flood warning in 2013
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.