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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 15, 2023Alexander County, Caldwell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 2023, 9:53 PM EDT for Alexander County, 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 15, 2023, 9:53 PM EDT (01:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2023, 1:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Alexander County, NC, Caldwell County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2023-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1658 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2023-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1658 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 9:13 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPCaldwell107 min
Jul 15, 11:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPBurke2 hr
Jul 15, 11:43 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAlexander, Iredell107 min
Jul 16, 12:56 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningGSPAlexander, Caldwell3 hr
Jul 16, 4:14 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPBurke, Caldwell3 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.