Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2000, 11:12 PM EDT for Greenville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 11 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2000, 11:12 PM EDT (03:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2000, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenville County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 970 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 KGSP 030312 FFWGSP SCC045-030500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1112 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 10 AM EDT * AT 1056 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM BEREA TO TRAVELERS REST...TAYLORS...TIGERVILLE AND GOWENSVILLE MOVING SLOLY NORTH. * OVER 2 AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY MAINLY NORTH OF TAYLORS IN THE PAST HOUR. A COUPLE OF VEHICLES HAVE ALREADY BEEN STRANDED AT REID SCHOOL ROAD AND TANNER ROAD. AN UNDERPASS ON CEDAR LANE NEAR BEREA ALSO HAS 4 FEET OF WATER ON IT. 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. $$
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.
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 2, 8:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 8:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
SCZ001>014-019-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-GAZ010-017-018-026-028- 029-030125- AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 830 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000 PERSISTANT PATTERN REMAINS ENTRENCHED OVER AREA. DEEP MOIST FLOW OVER SE US CONTINUES TO FUEL SHOWERS AND TSTMS OVER CWA. WILL REMOVE EVENING WORDING...OTHERWISE NO CHANGES EXPECTED WITH THIS PACKAGE. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 2, 11:09 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1109 PM EDT WED AUG 02 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1100 PM 2 N TAYLORS SC FLOODING
08/02/00 GREENVILLE GREENVILLE COUNTY SHERIFF
DEPT REPORTED A MOTORISTS
CAR HAD WATER OVER HOOD
AND WAS STALLED...TANNER
ROAD AND REID SCHOOL ROAD
1108 PM BEREA SC FLOODING
08/02/00 GREENVILLE UNDERPASS ON CEDAR LANE
ROAD HAD 4 FEET OF WATER.
REPORTED BY SHERIFF
DEPARTMENT.
JONES
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 11:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville | 108 min |
Nearby
Flash 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.