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Flood Watch 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flood watch at Feb 21, 2019, 3:31 AM EST for 10 counties in North Carolina; Anderson County, South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 39 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 2019, 3:31 AM EST (08:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2019, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 39 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Buncombe County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, Polk County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Anderson County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:31 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 312 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 557 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 587 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 11:06 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 62 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:06 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 59 min |
| Feb 20, 11:23 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 9 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:39 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Macon | 15 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:45 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:52 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Polk, Rutherford | 53 min |
| Feb 21, 12:36 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba, Davie, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg and 1 more | 54 min |
| Feb 21, 1:50 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 5 days |
| Feb 21, 2:44 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson | 7 hr |
| Feb 21, 6:46 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Macon | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:04 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 10:06 AM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Gaston | 38 hr |
| Feb 21, 12:44 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Macon | 17 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:31 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 60 hr |
| Feb 21, 2:18 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 6:31 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Pickens | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 6:36 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens | 54 min |
| Feb 21, 8:15 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 4 hr |
| Feb 21, 9:30 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Spartanburg | 17 hr |
| Feb 21, 2:29 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Habersham | 7 hr |
| Feb 21, 9:13 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Habersham | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 12:20 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Habersham | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 6:42 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Elbert | 8 hr |
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.