Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Oct 4, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT for Habersham County, Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 4, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 1995, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Habersham County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGSP 041929 FFWGSP GAC137-050130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 330 PM EDT WED OCT 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...HABERSHAM COUNTY HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT AND TODAY HAS CAUSED RIVERS AND STREAMS TO RISE IN HABERSHAM COUNTY. A BRIDGE CROSSING ON EAST GLADE CREEK WAS BARRICADED DUE WATER OVER THE BRIDGE. OVER FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. DO NOT TRY TO CROSS WATER COVER ROADS. LOWLAND AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING SHOULD BE EVACUATED. PEOPLE IN AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER AND SHOULD GO TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. JAT/RBN &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 4, 10:35 AM EDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
NCZ071-082-0401630 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 1035 AM EDT WED OCT 4 1995 ...CORRECTION FOR DATE... ...SHOWERS SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE ACROSS SECTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA... AT 1030 AM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTEND FROM NEAR GASTONIA EAST ACROSS CHARLOTTE TO NEAR MONROE IN UNION COUNTY. SOME REPORTS OF MINOR FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. ALONG ROUTE 601 SOUTH OF MARSHVILLE SOME FLOODING ALONG ROAD ... ALSO ALONG NEWTON ROAD JUST WEST ON MONROE. IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY SOME FLOODING ALONG PROVIDENCE ROAD BETWEEN WINDOVER AND SHARON AMITY AND ALSO CARMEL ROAD BETWEEN FAIRVIEW AND QUAL HALLOW. THE AREA OF SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA NORTH TO GREENSBORO AND WEST TO ASHEVILLE AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH. EVERYONE SHOULD MONITOR CREEKS AND STREAMS AND WATER LEVELS FREQUENTLY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER FLOWING ACROSS ROADWAYS. CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENT OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JPW
Special weather statement, Oct 4, 10:43 AM EDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
NCZ071-082-0401630 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 1035 AM EDT WED SEP 4 1995 ...SHOWERS SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE ACROSS SECTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA... AT 1030 AM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTEND FROM NEAR GASTONIA EAST ACROSS CHARLOTTE TO NEAR MONROE IN UNION COUNTY. SOME REPORTS OF MINOR FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. ALONG ROUTE 601 SOUTH OF MARSHVILLE SOME FLOODING ALONG ROAD ... ALSO ALONG NEWTON ROAD JUST WEST ON MONROE. IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY SOME FLOODING ALONG PROVIDENCE ROAD BETWEEN WINDOVER AND SHARON AMITY AND ALSO CARMEL ROAD BETWEEN FAIRVIEW AND QUAL HALLOW. THE AREA OF SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA NORTH TO GREENSBORO AND WEST TO ASHEVILLE AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH. EVERYONE SHOULD MONITOR CREEKS AND STREAMS AND WATER LEVELS FREQUENTLY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER FLOWING ACROSS ROADWAYS|. CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENT OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JPW
Special weather statement, Oct 4, 10:51 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
NCZ071-082-0401630 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 1035 AM EDT WED OCT 4 1995 ...CORRECTION FOR DATE... ...SHOWERS SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE ACROSS SECTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA... AT 1030 AM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTEND FROM NEAR GASTONIA EAST ACROSS CHARLOTTE TO NEAR MONROE IN UNION COUNTY. SOME REPORTS OF MINOR FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. ALONG ROUTE 601 SOUTH OF MARSHVILLE SOME FLOODING ALONG ROAD ... ALSO ALONG NEWTON ROAD JUST WEST ON MONROE. IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY SOME FLOODING ALONG PROVIDENCE ROAD BETWEEN WINDOVER AND SHARON AMITY AND ALSO CARMEL ROAD BETWEEN FAIRVIEW AND QUAL HALLOW. THE AREA OF SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA NORTH TO GREENSBORO AND WEST TO ASHEVILLE AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH. EVERYONE SHOULD MONITOR CREEKS AND STREAMS AND WATER LEVELS FREQUENTLY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER FLOWING ACROSS ROADWAYS. CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENT OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JPW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 9:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Habersham | 6 hr |
| Oct 4, 1:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Stephens | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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.