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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

October 13, 201415 counties in North Carolina; Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood watch at Oct 13, 2014, 10:55 PM EDT for 15 counties in North Carolina; Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia. It took effect at Oct 14, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 13, 2014, 10:55 PM EDT (02:55 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 14, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 15, 2014, 1:55 AM EDT
In force: 20 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Flood severity: None

Counties Habersham County, GA, Rabun 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, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Yancey County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 290 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 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 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 flash flood watch went out at Oct 13, 10:45 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 10:45 PM EDT, 10 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
Oct 14, 9:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Polk and 1 more	113 min
Oct 14, 10:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell	60 min
Oct 14, 10:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Madison, Mitchell, Yancey	62 min
Oct 14, 11:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	40 min
Oct 14, 12:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	52 min
Oct 14, 12:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Transylvania	3 hr
Oct 14, 1:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln, Rutherford	47 min
Oct 14, 2:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba	46 min
Oct 14, 3:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	3 hr
Oct 14, 4:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Graham, Swain	3 hr
Oct 14, 4:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Macon	2 hr
Oct 14, 5:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Jackson, Transylvania	3 hr
Oct 14, 6:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Transylvania	4 hr
Oct 14, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	33 min
Oct 14, 6:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Macon	4 hr
Oct 14, 7:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Henderson	4 hr
Oct 14, 7:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Graham	3 hr
Oct 14, 7:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	32 min
Oct 14, 7:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	2 hr
Oct 14, 7:53 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Oconee	52 min
Oct 14, 8:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Pickens and 2 more	111 min
Oct 14, 8:41 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Greenville, Oconee, Pickens	49 min
Oct 14, 10:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg	55 min
Oct 14, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	46 min
Oct 14, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	42 min
Oct 14, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	41 min
Oct 14, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson	48 min
Oct 14, 6:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham, Rabun	48 min
Oct 14, 8:42 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Habersham, Rabun	108 min
Oct 14, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Hart	42 min

Nearby

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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.