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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

February 3, 201622 counties in North Carolina; 4 counties in South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood watch at Feb 3, 2016, 4:11 AM EST for 22 counties in North Carolina; 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 3, 2016, 4:11 AM EST (09:11 UTC)
Expired: Feb 3, 2016, 2:57 PM EST
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Flood severity: None

All 26 counties

Alexander County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Union County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:11 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 263 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 600 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 505 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 607 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 Feb 3, 3:54 AM EST, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 3, 3:54 AM EST, 17 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
Feb 2, 9:33 PM EST	Wind Advisory	GSP	Avery, Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, McDowell and 6 more	12 hr
Feb 3, 6:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham, Macon, Swain	58 min
Feb 3, 6:34 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Graham, Jackson, Macon, Swain	3 hr
Feb 3, 6:37 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	3 hr
Feb 3, 7:33 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	57 min
Feb 3, 7:45 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	6 hr
Feb 3, 8:57 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell and 1 more	3 hr
Feb 3, 9:01 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	3 hr
Feb 3, 9:27 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Graham, Jackson, Macon, Swain	3 hr
Feb 3, 9:37 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell	38 min
Feb 3, 9:49 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell	26 min
Feb 3, 10:10 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	66 hr
Feb 3, 10:37 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Buncombe, McDowell	6 hr
Feb 3, 10:48 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	6 hr
Feb 3, 10:54 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston	51 min
Feb 3, 10:58 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Avery, Mitchell, Yancey	4 hr
Feb 3, 11:04 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	41 min
Feb 3, 11:10 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln	3 hr
Feb 3, 11:24 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	3 hr
Feb 3, 11:28 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe	12 hr
Feb 3, 11:41 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	49 min
Feb 3, 11:44 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Alexander, Catawba	4 hr
Feb 3, 12:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union	24 min
Feb 3, 12:31 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union	3 hr
Feb 3, 12:32 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Rowan	43 min
Feb 3, 12:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan	15 min
Feb 3, 12:50 PM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Haywood	12 hr
Feb 3, 12:57 PM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Swain	12 hr
Feb 3, 12:57 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	63 min
Feb 3, 1:36 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GSP	Madison	30 hr
Feb 3, 1:55 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	12 hr
Feb 3, 1:58 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	47 min
Feb 3, 2:00 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	3 hr
Feb 3, 2:24 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	41 hr
Feb 3, 2:53 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	McDowell	3 hr
Feb 3, 3:43 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba and 5 more	6 hr
Feb 3, 8:55 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	35 min
Feb 3, 9:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	43 min
Feb 3, 10:14 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	46 min
Feb 3, 10:52 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens and 2 more	3 hr
Feb 3, 11:14 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood, Laurens, Union	46 min
Feb 3, 11:35 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Chester, York	3 hr
Feb 3, 11:57 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood, Union	48 min
Feb 3, 12:43 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	47 min
Feb 3, 1:31 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	14 min
Feb 3, 7:00 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham, Rabun	45 min
Feb 3, 8:24 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin, Hart	36 min
Feb 3, 9:45 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Rabun	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2016 Flash Flood Watches in South Carolina, 2016 Every flash flood watch in 2016

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.