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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2000, 1:20 AM EDT for Aiken County, South Carolina; Columbia County, Richmond County, Georgia. 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 2000, 1:20 AM EDT (05:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2000, 4:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Columbia County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Aiken County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 523 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KCAE 210534 FFWCAE GAC073-245-SCC003-210815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 120 AM EDT WED JUN 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RICHMOND COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN AIKEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 415 AM EDT. * FLOODING WAS REPORTED BY LOCAL SHERIFFS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICIALS. * FLOODING OCCURRING ALONG THE AREA CREEKS OF RAES...REED AND CRANES. THE HEAVY RAINFALL THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WAS STILL PRODUCING FLOODING ALONG THE CREEKS ACROSS PORTIONS OF COLUMBIA...RICHMOND AND AIKEN COUNTIES. THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS THE AREA...BUT AREA CREEKS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE DURING THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS...THEN BEGIN RECEDE BACK INTO THEIR BANKS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. REPORT ANY FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY SHERIFF OR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN COLU MBIA. LAT...LON 3353 8234 3325 8209 3333 8154 3359 8198 & VAUGHAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 10:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Aiken | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000
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.