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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2013, 6:36 PM EDT for Greenville County, Laurens 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
- Jun 5, 2013, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2013, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Greenville County, SC, Laurens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 1227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 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 Jun 5, 4:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 4:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 351 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2013 GAZ029-NCZ036-037-056-057-069>072-082-SCZ008-009-011>014-019-062000- ELBERT-IREDELL-DAVIE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG- CABARRUS-UNION NC-CHEROKEE-YORK-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER- GREENWOOD- 351 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE PIEDMONT OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND MAY DROP LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...POSSIBLY LEADING TO A FEW AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. LOW PRESSURE SLOWLY ORGANIZING OVER THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST AND EVENTUALLY MOVE UP THE SOUTHEAST COAST THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO THE TRACK...INTENSITY AND TIMING OF THE LOW AS IT IS STILL IN ITS ORGANIZING STAGES. HOWEVER...IF THE LOW TRACKS FAR ENOUGH INLAND...A PERIOD OF WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN WITH AN ENHANCED FLOODING THREAT IS POSSIBLE OVER THE CAROLINA PIEDMONT THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. HOWEVER...EVEN IF THERE IS NO DIRECT IMPACT FROM THIS SYSTEM...ABUNDANT MOISTURE STREAMING INTO THE AREA AHEAD OF THE LOW WILL RESULT IN NUMEROUS TO WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH A THREAT OF LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. GAZ010-017-018-026-028-NCZ033-035-048>053-058-059-062>065-068- 501>510-SCZ001>007-010-062000- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-AVERY-ALEXANDER-MADISON- YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON- SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS- GREATER CALDWELL-BURKE MOUNTAINS-GREATER BURKE-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS- EASTERN MCDOWELL-RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-GREATER RUTHERFORD- POLK MOUNTAINS-EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS- GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-ANDERSON- 351 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA DURING THE EVENING HOURS. IN PARTICULAR...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MAY MOVE INTO THE SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6 AND 9 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND MAY DROP LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...POSSIBLY LEADING TO A FEW AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A FRONTAL SYSTEM INTERACTING WITH A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES AND ABUNDANT TROPICAL MOISTURE STREAMING INTO THE AREA FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL RESULT IN NUMEROUS TO WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE AT ANY POINT DURING THIS PERIOD...ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. 14
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Madison | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Swain | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson, Polk, Transylvania | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 7:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland, Polk, Rutherford | 52 min |
| Jun 5, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Madison | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 7:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland, Polk, Rutherford | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union | 110 min |
| Jun 5, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 6:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 85 min |
| Jun 5, 6:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 54 min |
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.