Alert archive / North Carolina / Flood Watches in 2015
Flood Watch 3, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flood watch at Nov 30, 2015, 3:12 PM EST for 18 counties in North Carolina; Habersham County, Rabun County, Stephens County, Georgia. It took effect at Dec 1, 2015, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 26 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 30, 2015, 3:12 PM EST (20:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 1, 2015, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 2, 2015, 2:41 PM EST
- In force
- 26 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Flood severity
- None
All 21 counties
Habersham County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Alexander County, NC, 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
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2015Flood Watches in Georgia, 2015Flood Watches in South Carolina, 2015Every flood watch in 2015
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.