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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Oct 1, 2015, 6:08 PM EDT for 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
- Oct 1, 2015, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 2015, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Pickens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 Oct 1, 3:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 1, 3:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 1, 4:08 PM EDT, 2 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 408 PM EDT THU OCT 1 2015 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-022015- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER- IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA- ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA- HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION- 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-CHEROKEE-YORK- ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 408 PM EDT THU OCT 1 2015 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ..FRIDAY...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLASH FLOODING LIKELY. SEE THE LATEST FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR DETAILS. ..SATURDAY...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLASH FLOODING LIKELY. SEE THE LATEST FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR DETAILS. ..SUNDAY...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLASH FLOODING LIKELY. SEE THE LATEST FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR DETAILS. ..MONDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ..TUESDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ..WEDNESDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 8:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rowan | 24 min |
| Sep 30, 9:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba | 3 hr |
| Sep 30, 10:13 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Union | 2 hr |
| Oct 1, 4:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more | 4 days |
| Oct 1, 4:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Swain | 117 min |
| Oct 1, 1:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 54 min |
| Oct 1, 2:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 3 hr |
| Oct 1, 4:59 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 3 hr |
| Oct 1, 7:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 37 min |
| Oct 1, 7:55 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 35 min |
| Oct 1, 11:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 28 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.