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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2019, 12:39 PM EDT for Avery County, Burke County, Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 6 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
- Jun 9, 2019, 12:39 PM EDT (16:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2019, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Avery County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:39 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 9, 11:07 AM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 11:07 AM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC 511 AM EDT Sun Jun 9 2019 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-049-050-053-056-057-059- 062>065-068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-100915- Rabun-Habersham-Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Elbert-Avery-Alexander- Iredell-Davie-Yancey-Mitchell-Buncombe-Catawba-Rowan- 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- 511 AM EDT Sun Jun 9 2019 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, piedmont North Carolina, western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Flash Flood Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. An unsettled weather pattern will continue through mid-week. Additional heavy rainfall and flooding will be possible each day. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. NCZ048-051-052-058-100915- Madison-Swain-Haywood-Graham- 511 AM EDT Sun Jun 9 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for western North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Heavy rainfall and flooding will be possible today and tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. An unsettled weather pattern will continue through mid-week. Additional heavy rainfall and flooding will be possible each day. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are requested to forward any reports of large hail, damaging winds, tornadoes, or flash flooding to our office.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:37 AM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 8:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Avery | 112 min |
| Jun 8, 9:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Lincoln and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:16 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Alexander, Catawba, Iredell | 9 hr |
| Jun 9, 3:11 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Gaston | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 4:39 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe | 111 min |
| Jun 9, 4:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Catawba | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 4:58 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GSP | Gaston | 60 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:20 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Avery | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:30 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell | 5 hr |
| Jun 9, 6:22 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 7:10 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Burke, Caldwell, Catawba | 8 hr |
| Jun 9, 7:35 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Catawba | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:44 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 10:38 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba | 24 hr |
| Jun 9, 11:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Alexander, Catawba, Iredell | 45 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Burke | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 47 hr |
| Jun 9, 3:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 4:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 32 hr |
| Jun 8, 8:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:06 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Rabun | 18 hr |
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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.