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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 21, 2024Iredell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 2024, 8:07 PM EDT for Iredell 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 21, 2024, 8:07 PM EDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2024, 11:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Iredell County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2024-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 696 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2024-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -51 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
696 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.2
Supercell composite
-2.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 9:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion33 min
Jul 21, 9:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPBuncombe, Henderson3 hr
Jul 22, 3:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe36 min
Jul 22, 4:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe45 min
Jul 22, 4:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMcDowell33 min
Jul 22, 5:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPJackson33 min
Jul 22, 5:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson29 min
Jul 22, 5:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPJackson33 min
Jul 22, 6:54 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPBuncombe, Henderson2 hr
Jul 21, 8:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPChester29 min
Jul 21, 8:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYork28 min
Jul 21, 9:00 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPChester2 hr
Jul 21, 9:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPChester3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2024Every flash flood warning in 2024

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.