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Areal Flood Warning 18, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this areal flood warning at Oct 7, 2021, 2:01 PM EDT for Burke County, McDowell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 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
- Oct 7, 2021, 2:01 PM EDT (18:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2021, 6:14 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Burke County, NC, McDowell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Oct 7, 1:57 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 7, 1:57 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC 514 AM EDT Thu Oct 7 2021 GAZ018-026-028-029-NCZ033-048>051-058-068-501>504-506-508-510- SCZ004>008-010>013-019-080915- Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Elbert-Avery-Madison-Yancey-Mitchell-Swain- Graham-Cleveland-Caldwell Mountains-Greater Caldwell-Burke Mountains- Greater Burke-Eastern McDowell-Greater Rutherford-Eastern Polk- Greater Oconee-Greater Pickens-Greater Greenville-Spartanburg- Cherokee-Anderson-Abbeville-Laurens-Union SC-Greenwood- 514 AM EDT Thu Oct 7 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, piedmont North Carolina, western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Numerous to widespread showers along with isolated thunderstorms are expected off and on through tonight. The main threat will be from locally heavy rainfall. Isolated flash flooding could develop in areas that see multiple rounds of heavy rainfall. Locations that have received heavy rainfall in previous days will be most susceptible to developing flash flooding. Occasional cloud to ground lightning will also be possible with any thunderstorms. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. GAZ010-017-NCZ052-053-059-062>065-505-507-509-SCZ001>003-080915- Rabun-Habersham-Haywood-Buncombe-Northern Jackson-Macon- Southern Jackson-Transylvania-Henderson-McDowell Mountains- Rutherford Mountains-Polk Mountains-Oconee Mountains- Pickens Mountains-Greenville Mountains- 514 AM EDT Thu Oct 7 2021 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, 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...Friday through Wednesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. NCZ035>037-056-057-069>072-082-SCZ009-014-080915- Alexander-Iredell-Davie-Catawba-Rowan-Lincoln-Gaston-Mecklenburg- Cabarrus-Union NC-York-Chester- 514 AM EDT Thu Oct 7 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for piedmont North Carolina and upstate South Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Isolated to widely scattered thunderstorms are expected across the Piedmont today, mainly this afternoon and evening. The primary threats from any storms will be from cloud to ground lightning and locally heavy rainfall. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. Lane
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 7, 12:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 12:20 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Avery, Caldwell | 2 hr |
| Oct 7, 6:40 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Transylvania | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 6:59 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Transylvania | 5 hr |
| Oct 7, 7:08 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Jackson, Macon, Transylvania | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 7:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe, McDowell, Rutherford | 7 hr |
| Oct 7, 8:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Rutherford | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 9:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 55 min |
| Oct 7, 9:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell | 5 hr |
| Oct 7, 9:41 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 3 days |
| Oct 7, 9:41 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe | 17 hr |
| Oct 7, 9:46 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 68 hr |
| Oct 7, 10:53 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Transylvania | 6 hr |
| Oct 7, 11:03 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke | 6 hr |
| Oct 7, 11:19 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Rutherford | 6 hr |
| Oct 7, 11:49 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 8 hr |
| Oct 7, 1:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Macon, Swain | 8 hr |
| Oct 7, 5:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 43 min |
| Oct 7, 6:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 7:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Abbeville | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 8:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 9:16 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson | 7 hr |
| Oct 7, 9:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 63 min |
| Oct 7, 10:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 4 hr |
| Oct 7, 12:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 6 hr |
| Oct 7, 3:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 37 min |
| Oct 7, 4:21 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 2 hr |
| Oct 7, 4:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Elbert, Hart | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 6:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Elbert, Hart | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 6:26 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 4 hr |
| Oct 7, 8:26 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Rabun | 6 hr |
| Oct 7, 9:11 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Elbert, Hart | 35 hr |
| Oct 7, 10:39 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Habersham | 7 hr |
| Oct 7, 4:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Hart | 3 hr |
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Areal Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2021Every areal flood warning in 2021
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.