Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 1, 2000, 10:50 PM EDT for Spartanburg County, South 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
- Sep 1, 2000, 10:50 PM EDT (02:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2000, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Spartanburg County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 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 020252 FFWGSP SCC083-020445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1050 PM EDT FRI SEP 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SPARTANBURG COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1245 AM EDT * AT 1050 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL OVER MOST OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. THE HEAVIEST DOWNPOURS WERE NEAR THE CITY OF SPARTANBURG...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF NEARLY 2 INCHES PER HOUR. * ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WILL MOVE NORTH FROM WOODRUFF AND MOORE AND PASS OVER THE CITY OF SPARTANBURG BETWEEN 11 PM AND MIDNIGHT. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CREATE SERIOUS STANDING WATER IN NORMALLY POOR DRAINAGE LOCATIONS. RAPID RISES TO BANKFULL ARE ALSO QUITE POSSIBLE ALONG LAWSON CREEK...FAIRFOREST CREEK...AND THE TYGER RIVERS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS SINCE FLOODED ROADWAYS ARE HARDER TO RECOGNIZE AT NIGHT. $$ HG
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 Sep 1, 9:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 9:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
SCZ001>014-019-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-GAZ010-017-018-026-028- 029-020800- AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 900 PM EDT FRI SEP 1 2000 GREATEST RADAR COVERAGE IS OVER THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT THIS EVENING...WITH A RATHER LARGE AREA OF 40+ DBZ MOVING NORTHWEST. THE 21Z RUC DEPICTED THE TSTM AREA VERY WELL IN THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE FIELDS AT THE 3 HR PROJECTION. THE CONVERGENCE... HOWEVER...WEAKENS THROUGH 06Z AS IT STRETCHES FROM THE UPSTATE INTO THE NW NC PIEDMONT. SINCE THE RUC INITIALIZED WELL...CONFIDENCE IS GREATER THAT SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOOD PROBLEMS WILL NOT OCCUR IN THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT AS INSTABILITY...FORCING...AND THUS RAINFALL RATES GRADUALLY DIMINISH. WILL STILL RETAIN HEAVY RAIN WORDING IN ZONES HOWEVER SINCE ISOLATED STREET FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH MAX 2.5 INCH PER HOUR RATES. GSO SOUNDING STILL SHOWED 800+ CAPES WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER 2.0+ INCHES. WILL ADJUST UPSTATE SC/NE GA/PIEDMONT NC TEMPS TO LOWER 70S WITH VERY MOIST PROFILE...AND PUSH MTN TEMPS TO 65 TO 70 RANGE. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. HG
Nearby
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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.