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River Flood Warning 26, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

December 28, 2015Henderson County, Transylvania County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood warning at Dec 28, 2015, 12:27 PM EST for Henderson County, Transylvania County, North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 29, 2015, 6:05 AM EST. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 28, 2015, 12:27 PM EST (17:27 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 29, 2015, 6:05 AM EST
Expired: Jan 2, 2016, 8:52 AM EST
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Henderson County, NC, Transylvania County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:27 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 river

Written for the forecast point French Broad River at Grove Bridge Rd, in Blantyre (BLAN7). The gauge peaked at 18.80 ft at Dec 30, 2015, 4:00 PM EST.

Action stage: 15 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 19 ft
Major stage: 23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03443000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Dec 27, 6:53 PM EST, 17 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 27, 6:53 PM EST, 17 hours 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 27, 3:57 PM EST, 20 hours 30 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
357 PM EST SUN DEC 27 2015

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-282100-
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-
357 PM EST SUN DEC 27 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT
NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

..MONDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
..TUESDAY...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING POSSIBLE. A COUPLE OF MORE
ROUNDS OF RAIN IS EXPECTED...ONE ON MONDAY NIGHT AND ANOTHER ON
WEDNESDAY. DUE TO NEARLY SATURATED SOILS AND HIGH RIVER
LEVELS...SOME FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN THE
MOUNTAINS.
..WEDNESDAY...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING POSSIBLE.
..THURSDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
..FRIDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
..SATURDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

ARK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 28, 1:15 AM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union	8 hr
Dec 28, 3:54 AM EST	Wind Advisory	GSP	Avery, Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson and 6 more	24 hr
Dec 28, 4:10 AM EST	Flood Watch	GSP	Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba and 21 more	71 hr
Dec 28, 2:26 PM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe	13 hr
Dec 28, 6:54 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	36 min
Dec 28, 6:56 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	McDowell, Rutherford	34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.