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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 11, 2019Caldwell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 2019, 4:31 PM EDT for Caldwell County, North 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: Jul 11, 2019, 4:31 PM EDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2019, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Caldwell County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 513 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 8:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	53 min
Jul 11, 12:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	27 min
Jul 11, 1:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	14 min
Jul 11, 1:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Avery	109 min
Jul 11, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	13 min
Jul 11, 2:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Caldwell	2 hr
Jul 11, 2:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	25 min
Jul 11, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	27 min
Jul 11, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	26 min
Jul 11, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke	26 min
Jul 11, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	25 min
Jul 11, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	30 min
Jul 11, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	34 min
Jul 11, 3:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Caldwell	3 hr
Jul 11, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, McDowell, Rutherford	34 min
Jul 11, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba	39 min
Jul 11, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	28 min
Jul 11, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	35 min
Jul 11, 5:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Catawba	114 min
Jul 11, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	35 min
Jul 11, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	28 min
Jul 11, 7:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	36 min
Jul 11, 12:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	52 min
Jul 11, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	28 min
Jul 11, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	33 min
Jul 11, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg	26 min
Jul 11, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	33 min
Jul 11, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	25 min
Jul 11, 6:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	37 min
Jul 11, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union	30 min
Jul 11, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	29 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.