Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Issued

Jul 23, 1997, 2:15 AM EDT (06:15 UTC)

Expired

Jul 23, 1997, 5:00 AM EDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Area

Whole counties

County Cabarrus County, NC

The Greer radar (KGSP), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KGSP 230616
FFWGSP
NCC025-230900-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
215 AM EDT WED JUL 23 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CABARRUS COUNTY
 
RADAR ESTIMATED THAT RAINFALL HAS REACHED CRITICAL LEVELS IN MUCH OF THE
COUNTY TONIGHT AND SEVERE URBAN FLOODING WAS BECOMING VERY LIKELY. OTHER
STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE COUNTY FROM THE WEST ADDING TO THE HEAVY RAIN.
THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS OCCURRED ALONG HIGHWAY 49 EAST OF CONCORD. SOME OF
THE STORMS WERE CAUSING RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR.
 
REMEMBER NIGHTTIME MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOODED
AREAS. USE CAUTION IN AND NEAR ANY SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS
TONIGHT.
 
JONES

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 22, 9:08 PM EDT, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
908 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 1997

DISC:  RADAR/SAT TRENDS THE PAST 4-6 HOURS INDICATE THE REMNANTS OF
DANNY...CURRENTLY CLOSE TO NW GA... IS MOVING.  APPARENT MOTION IS FROM
ABOUT 250 DEGREES AT ARND 10 KTS...WHICH IF IT CONTINUED WOULD TRACK
WHATEVERS LEFT OF THE SYSTEM INTO THE WEST PART OF THE UPSTATE SC
TOMORROW AFTERNOON.  ASIDE FROM A FEW BANDS OF PCPN...THE ONLY EFFECT OF
DANNY SO FAR HAS BEEN TO PROVIDE WARM MID LEVEL TEMPS AND A DIVERGENT
LOW LEVEL FLOW REDUCING CONVECTIVE CVRG.  THE MAIN ACTIVITY TODAY HAS
BEEN ALONG THE BNDRY DRAPED ACRS MY NORTHERN NC COUNTIES...WHICH HAS
FOCUSED QUITE A BIT OF HEAVY RAIN FROM THE NORTHERN MTNS INTO THE
NORTHERN PARTS OF THE CLT METRO AREA.

OVERALL...THE GOING BREAKDOWN OF WATCHES/POPS LOOKS GOOD ACRS MY CWA.
DONT SEE ANY PROBLEM CUTTING POPS BACK A BIT UPSTATE...BUT AS WE SAW
LATE LAST NIGHT IN THE UPSTATE/SOUTHERN NC MTNS CONVECTIVE BANDS CAN
REALLY POP WITH A BIT OF UPSLOPE FLOW AND THIS MUCH MSTR.  TEMPERATURE
FCSTS ONCE AGAIN IN LINE.

JOHNSTONE

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.