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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 12, 2013Anderson County, Greenville County, Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2013, 4:50 PM EDT for Anderson County, Greenville County, Pickens 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: Jul 12, 2013, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Anderson County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 1881 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 12, 2:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 2:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 12, 3:51 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 12, 3:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 3:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 3:54 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 4:04 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:15 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:22 PM EDT, 28 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 11, 8:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Iredell	58 min
Jul 11, 9:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	46 min
Jul 11, 10:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	42 min
Jul 12, 12:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	45 min
Jul 12, 1:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	52 min
Jul 12, 1:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	28 min
Jul 12, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery	50 min
Jul 12, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	45 min
Jul 12, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, McDowell	42 min
Jul 12, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	55 min
Jul 12, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	67 min
Jul 12, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	40 min
Jul 12, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	65 min
Jul 12, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson	49 min
Jul 12, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell, Rutherford	38 min
Jul 12, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	66 min
Jul 12, 4:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	McDowell, Rutherford	113 min
Jul 12, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk	42 min
Jul 12, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Caldwell	26 min
Jul 12, 7:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mitchell	39 min
Jul 12, 7:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Caldwell	2 hr
Jul 12, 7:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Caldwell	3 hr
Jul 11, 8:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Laurens, Spartanburg	3 hr
Jul 11, 8:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	47 min
Jul 11, 8:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Spartanburg	2 hr
Jul 11, 9:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Union	3 hr
Jul 11, 10:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Union	2 hr
Jul 11, 10:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	66 min
Jul 11, 11:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville, Laurens	2 hr
Jul 11, 11:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	49 min
Jul 12, 12:01 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	119 min
Jul 12, 12:34 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Abbeville	116 min
Jul 12, 1:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	53 min
Jul 12, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	52 min
Jul 12, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	64 min
Jul 12, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester	64 min
Jul 12, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	48 min
Jul 12, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	38 min
Jul 12, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	44 min
Jul 12, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	65 min
Jul 12, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	61 min
Jul 12, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg, Union	43 min
Jul 12, 3:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	66 min
Jul 12, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	46 min
Jul 12, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	58 min
Jul 12, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	56 min
Jul 12, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	65 min
Jul 12, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Pickens	58 min
Jul 12, 4:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Anderson, Greenville, Pickens	109 min
Jul 12, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee	59 min
Jul 12, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	64 min
Jul 12, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	56 min
Jul 12, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	47 min
Jul 12, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville	54 min
Jul 12, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	55 min
Jul 12, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	61 min
Jul 12, 6:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville, Pickens	115 min
Jul 12, 6:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Anderson	106 min
Jul 12, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg	65 min
Jul 12, 6:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Greenville, Pickens	3 hr
Jul 12, 7:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Greenville, Pickens	2 hr
Jul 12, 7:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	39 min
Jul 11, 9:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Rabun	2 hr
Jul 12, 2:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	35 min
Jul 12, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham	41 min
Jul 12, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham	51 min
Jul 12, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Hart	64 min
Jul 12, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Franklin, Hart	52 min
Jul 12, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Franklin	32 min
Jul 12, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham	45 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2013 Every 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.