Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Issued

Sep 2, 2000, 2:20 PM EDT (18:20 UTC)

Expired

Sep 2, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Area

Whole counties

Counties Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC

The Greer radar (KGSP), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WGUS52 KGSP 021820
FFWGSP
NCC023-027-022115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
220 PM EDT SAT SEP 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CALDWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  BURKE COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 215 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF VERY HEAVY 
RAINFALL FROM SOUTHWEST...TO NORTHEAST ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.  AN 
AUTOMATIC RAIN GAGE BETWEEN MORGANTON AND LENOIR REPORTED 1.50 INCH 
IN AN HOUR.  URBAN FLOODING HAS ALREADY CLOSED STREETS IN 
LENOIR...AND ALTHOUGH THAT WATER WAS RECEDING...ADDITIONAL HEAVY 
RAIN WILL LIKELY MOVE BACK IN.

* ADDITIONAL URBAN FLOODING IS IMMINENT...AS WELL AS FLOODING OF 
SMALL STREAMS AS THIS BAND OF RAIN REMAINS NEARLY STATIONARY...AND 
AS ADDITIONAL SHOWERS DEVELOP OR MOVE IN.  NEARLY 4 INCHES OF RAIN 
FELL IN PARTS OF THESE COUNTIES OVERNIGHT...AND THE NEW RAINFALL IS 
CAUSING FLOODING TO QUICKLY DEVELOP.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...xCOUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

$$
JONES

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 2, 9:45 AM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
945 AM EDT SAT SEP 2 2000

SITUATION CONTINUES TO BE DOMINATED BY CIRCULATION OF WEAK UPPER LOW
ENTRENCHED OVER AL/GA. THE MEAN FLOW AROUND THIS LOW CONTINUES TO
PUMP DEEP MOISTURE ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS TODAY. THE MAIN
CONCERN WITH THE FORECAST IS THE SHORT TERM PROSPECTS FOR
FLOODING...AS MANY OF THE INGREDIENTS ARE IN PLACE...INCLUDING VERY
HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES INDICATED BY SATELLITE IMAGERY AND
OBSERVED ON THE GSO RAOB (NEARLY 2 INCHES). THE AREA BETWEEN CLT AND GSO
IS CURRENTLY BEING MONITORED FOR SIGNS OF A QUASI-STATIONARY
RAINFALL SYSTEM AS IT APPEARS TO BE IN THE COMMA HEAD REGION OF A
LARGER COMPLEX MOVING INTO CENTRAL NC. AM CONSIDERING A SHORT FUSE
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS LOCATION AND CONTINUE TO MONITOR.

THE MAIN CHANGE IN THE ZONE UPDATE WILL BE TO BREAK OUT SOME OF THE
COUNTIES IN THE NC PIEDMONT TO GO WITH CATEGORICAL RAIN AND TO
MENTION HEAVY RAINFALL. CURRENT ZONES ALSO HAVE TEMPS ABOUT A
CATEGORY ABOVE GUIDANCE IN MOST LOCATIONS. GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF CLOUD
COVER THIS SEEMS A BIT UNLIKELY. IF WE MANAGE TO BREAK OUT AT ALL...
CONVPECTION WILL PROBABLY FILL THE HOLES BACK IN WITH MORE PRECIP
GIVEN THE REALLY DEEP MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY. WILL PROBABLY DROP
TEMP FORECAST DOWN CLOSER TO GUIDANCE.

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

MOORE

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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.