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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Oct 5, 1995, 12:11 AM EDT for Habersham County, Stephens County, Georgia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 5, 1995, 12:11 AM EDT (04:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 1995, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Habersham County, GA, Stephens County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 336 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -88 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 050411 FFWGSP GAC137-241-257-NCC099-113-175-SCC073-077-050800- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 1211 AM EDT THU OCT 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...HABERSHAM COUNTY...RABUN COUNTY...STEPHENS COUNTY IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA ...JACKSON COUNTY...MACON COUNTY...TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...OCONEE COUNTY...PICKENS COUNTY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS MOVED QUICKLY INTO THE WARNED AREA. HEAVY RAINFALL EARLIER TODAY HAS CAUSED SATURATED GROUND AND FLASH FLOODING COULD RESULT QUICKLY. RAINFALL RATES OF NEAR 2 INCHES PER HOUR COULD OCCUR. FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED SOON FOR OTHER COUNTIES...ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS. REFER TO LATEST RIVER FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR INFORMATION ABOUT MAIN STREAMS. REMEMBER NIGHTTIME MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOODED AREAS. USE CAUTION IN AND NEAR ANY SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS TONIGHT. ANYONE DRIVING ACROSS BRIDGES WHICH ARE UNDER WATER SHOULD BE ADVISED THAT SOMETI MES THE ROADS NEAR THE BRIDGES WASH OUT. IF YOU DRIVE NEAR THE BRIDGES...YOU MAY SINK INTO THE WASHED OUT AREA AND LOOSE YOUR VEHICLE. DO NOT RISK YOUR LIFE OR VEHICLE...CHOOSE AN ALTERNATE ROUTE INSTEAD. JONES
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 5, 12:00 AM EDT, 11 minutes before
NCZ056-068>071-082-051900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 1200 AM EDT THU OCT 05 1995 ....FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TODAY... ....HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR CLEVELAND COUNTY N.C. FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA ANSON CABARRUS CLEVELAND IREDELL LINCOLN MECKLENBURG ROWAN STANLY UNION GASTON ALEXANDER CATAWBA AT 1145 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES SHOWERS EXTENDING FROM JUST EAST OF HICKORY IN CATAWBA COUNTY SOUTH THROUGH LINCOLNTON IN LINCOLN COUNTY TO WEST OF KINGS MOUNTAIN IN CLEVELAND COUNTY INTO CHESTER IN CHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA. THESE SHOWERS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. REMEMBER.. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS FLOOD THREAT AND PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. IF YOU LIVE..WORK ..OR TRAVEL IN OR NEAR FLOOD PRONE AREAS..BE PREPARED TO TAKE EMERGENCY ACTIONS FOR FLOODING. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO...TV OR WEATHER RADIO FOR WEATHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 12:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Rabun | 4 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.