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Flood Watch 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

November 26, 201321 counties in North Carolina; Cherokee County, South Carolina; 4 counties in Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flood watch at Nov 26, 2013, 10:01 AM EST for 21 counties in North Carolina; Cherokee County, South Carolina; 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 26, 2013, 10:01 AM EST (15:01 UTC)
Expired: Nov 27, 2013, 1:24 AM EST
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Flood severity: None

All 26 counties

Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Cherokee County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:00 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 241 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 477 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 640 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 flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Nov 26, 7:25 AM EST, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 26, 7:25 AM EST, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 26, 7:01 AM EST, 3 hours before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 26, 8:27 AM EST, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 26, 8:30 AM EST, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 26, 8:36 AM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 26, 8:56 AM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
856 AM EST TUE NOV 26 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0815 AM     FREEZING RAIN    CONCORD                 35.41N  80.59W
11/26/2013  E0.10 INCH       CABARRUS           NC   CO-OP OBSERVER

            LIGHT GLAZE ON SURFACES OF CARS.

&&

SBK

Local storm report, Nov 26, 9:12 AM EST, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
912 AM EST TUE NOV 26 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0911 AM     FREEZING RAIN    SHEFFIELD               35.97N  80.68W
11/26/2013  E0.10 INCH       DAVIE              NC   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TREES AND ELEVATED SURFACES COVERED IN ICE. STILL
            EXPERIENCING -FZRA. 31 F.

&&

SBK

Local storm report, Nov 26, 9:15 AM EST, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
915 AM EST TUE NOV 26 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0614 AM     FREEZING RAIN    CANTON                  35.55N  82.84W
11/26/2013  E0.15 INCH       HAYWOOD            NC   PUBLIC

            TREE ICED OVER AND HANGING INTO STREET DISRUPTING
            TRAFFIC.

&&

SBK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 26, 4:41 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	GSP	Avery, Graham, Haywood, Madison, Mitchell, Swain and 1 more	10 hr
Nov 26, 4:56 AM EST	Wind Advisory	GSP	Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell and 4 more	34 hr
Nov 26, 10:06 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	47 hr
Nov 26, 2:47 PM EST	High Wind Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Henderson, McDowell, Polk and 1 more	24 hr
Nov 26, 2:56 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	GSP	Avery, Graham, Haywood, Madison, Mitchell, Swain and 1 more	33 hr
Nov 26, 2:56 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	GSP	Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood and 11 more	42 hr
Nov 26, 3:18 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	6 hr
Nov 26, 6:57 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	48 min

Nearby

Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2013 Flood Watches in Georgia, 2013 Flood Watches in South Carolina, 2013 Every flood watch 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.