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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 4, 2000Cabarrus County, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2000, 1:20 AM EDT for Cabarrus County, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 115 min. 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 4, 2000, 1:20 AM EDT (05:20 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2000, 3:15 AM EDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 111 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 624 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1024 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS52 KGSP 040525
FFWGSP
NCC025-119-040715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
120 AM EDT FRI AUG 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA
  CABARRUS COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 315 AM EDT

* AT 117 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER MECKELNBURG COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES IN NORTH CHARLOTTE
  WERE APPORACHING FOUR INCHES...WITH A WIDESPREAD SWATH OF TWO TO
  THREE INCH ESTIMATES ACROSS MUCH OF THE CHARLOTTE METROPOLITAN
  AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS...ESPECIALLY LITTLE SUGAR...SUGAR
  AND MCALPINE CREEKS... WILL LIKELY APPROACH BANKFULL...OR 
  EXCEED THEIR BANKS AND FLOOD ROADS...AND SOME YARDS...IN           
  NORTHERN...AND EASTERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY. 

  THE RAINFALL WILL ALSO LIKELY PRODUCE FLOODING OF STREAMS AND
  CREEKS IN CABARRUS COUNTY...SINCE THE RAINFALL WILL LINGER OVER
  KANNAPOLIS...CONCORD AND HARRISBURG INTO THE PREDAWN HOURS.
  
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS 
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. 
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. EVEN MODERN SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES CANNOT BE 
SAFELY DRIVEN THROUGH FLOOD WATERS.

$$
BURRUS

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 3, 8:45 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 8:45 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

SCZ001>014-019-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-GAZ010-017-018-026-028-
029-040110-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
845 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2000

CONTINUED DEEP MOISTURE IN MODERATELY UNSTABLE FLOW FUELING SHOWERS
AND SCT TSTMS ACROSS FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING. SOME AREAS ARE
RECEIVING PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN...BUT STORMS ARE SLOWLY
MOVING ALONG. OTHER THAN SOME NUISANCE POOLING OF WATER ON ROADS...MUCH
NEEDED WATER IS FALLING WITHOUT SERIOUS TROUBLE...SO FAR. WITH THE
ABUNDANCE OF PRECIPITABLE WATER AND SOME TRAINING OF ECHOES...A
VIGILANT WATCH WILL BE REQUIRED THE REST OF THIS EVENING AND BEYOND
FOR POTENTIAL FLOODING. THE EVIDENCE IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH FOR A
WATCH ATTM BUT A STATEMENT HAS BEEN ISSUED. WILL TWEAK POPS SOME
AREAS BUT OVERALL ZONES IN GOOD SHAPE.

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.

RB

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2000 Every 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.