Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Issued

Mar 13, 1997, 10:46 PM EST (03:46 UTC)

Expired

Mar 14, 1997, 2:00 AM EST

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Area

Whole counties

Counties Haywood County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Transylvania County, NC

The Greer radar (KGSP), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KGSP 140358
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NCC087-099-175-140700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1046 PM EST THU MAR 13 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA
     
     ...HAYWOOD COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY...TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY

MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING THROUGH MUCH OF THE LATE
AFTERNOON AND THROUGH THE EVENING. AUTOMATIC RAIN GAGES SHOW RAINFALL
HAS REACHED CRITICAL LEVELS. ALTHOUGH A SHORT BREAK IN THE RAINFALL
WILL OCCUR BEFORE MIDNIGHT...RADAR SHOWED MORE THUNDERSTORMS AND
SHOWERS MOVING TOWARD THE WARNED AREA.

THE FRENCH BROAD RIVER AT ROSMAN WILL RISE TO FLOOD STAGE AND PERHAPS A
FOOT OR SO ABOVE BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 2 AM. OTHER SMALL STREAMS SUBJECT
TO FLOODING WILL LIKELY FLOOD.

REMEMBER THAT SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES AR:E THE
RESULT OF EITHER DRIVING INTO FLOOD WATERS OR CHILDREN PLAYING IN OR
NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES OR STREAMS. 

REMEMBER NIGHTTIME MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOODED AREAS. USE
CAUTION IN AND NEAR ANY SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS TONIGHT.

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 13, 8:48 PM EST, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG, SC
847 PM EST THU MAR 13 1997

.FCST TRENDS AS FAR AS RAIN OK.  COLD POOL HAS ERODED WITH DWPNTS AND
 AIR TEMPS WARMER NOW THEN EARLIER THOUGHT ACROSS UPST AND MOST OF
 WESTERN NC.  EVEN GA MTNS MAY BE A CAT LOW.

HEAVY RAINS ARE ACCUMULATING IN OREGRAPHIC FAVORED LOCATIONS IN THE
NORTH CAROLINA MTNS.  NUMEROUS SPOTS REPRTNG 1 TO 2 INCHES IN 3 HRS
WITH A FEW  ABOUVE 3 INCHES FOR THE DAY.  ALSO HAVE HAD OVR AN INCH
FOR THE DAY AT THE THE MTNS CITY GAGE IN RABUN CNTY GA.

ACROSS THE MTNS OF NE GA AND THE MTNS OF SC RAINFALL AMNTS 2 TO 3
INCHES IN 3 TO 12 HRS MAY CAUSE FLOODING ACCORDING TO CURRENT FFG.

WITH AS MUCH RdAIN AS I SEE UPSTRM I THINK A FFA FOR EXTM NE GA AND
THE MTNS OF SC.  RAH MAY ALSO WANT TO THINK ABOUT EXPANDING WATCH
FOR ALL SO MTNS.

NEAL

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.