Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Watches in 2014
Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood watch at Jul 31, 2014, 10:40 AM EDT for 17 counties in North Carolina; 4 counties in South Carolina; 6 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Jul 31, 2014, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 2014, 10:40 AM EDT (14:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 31, 2014, 11:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2014, 9:05 AM EDT
- In force
- 22 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Flood severity
- None
All 27 counties
Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson 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, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:43 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 350 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
- 508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 6:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Anderson, Greenville | 105 min |
| Jul 31, 7:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 40 min |
| Jul 31, 8:29 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Anderson, Greenville | 2 hr |
| Jul 31, 9:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 10:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 12:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Abbeville | 104 min |
| Jul 31, 3:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Anderson | 102 min |
| Jul 31, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 64 min |
| Jul 31, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens | 84 min |
| Jul 31, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester, Union, York | 65 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2014Flash Flood Watches in Georgia, 2014Flash Flood Watches in South Carolina, 2014Every flash flood watch in 2014
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.