Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 2000, 11:13 PM EDT for Greenville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 107 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
- May 2, 2000, 11:13 PM EDT (03:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2000, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 107 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenville County, SC
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
- 444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1349 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KGSP 030314 FFWGSP SCC045-030500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1113 PM EDT TUE MAY 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 100 AM EDT * AT 1105 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE CITY OF GREENVILLE AND NEARBY TOWNS OF MAULDIN AND SIMPSONVILLE. THE PRECIPITATION WAS DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST AND WAS SLOWLY WEAKENING. HOWEVER...OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE...MORE THAN ENOUGH TO BRING STREAMS AND CREEKS OUT OF THEIR BANKS IN THE WARNING AREA. A SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTER RECENTLY REPORTED DRAINAGE DITCHES OVERFLOWING ONTO PART OF PELHAM ROAD NEAR INTERSTATE 85. CREEKS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE BRUSHY CREEK IN GREENVILLE...THE REEDY RIVER SOUTH OF GREENVILLE TOWARD FORK SHOALS... AND GILDER CREEK IN SIMPSONVILLE... AS WELL AS SMALLER STREAMS AND CREEKS IN SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL GREENVILLE COUNTY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. STOP! TURN AROUND AND FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION SAFELY. TO REPORT FLOODING...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND HAVE THEM FORWARD YOUR REPORT TO THME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ 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 May 2, 9:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 9:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 927 PM EDT TUE MAY 2 2000 BUSY NIGHT HERE AT GOOD OLE GSP...WITH FLOODING AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. CONVECTION TAMER NOW... BUT LUKS LIKE CHANCE POPS WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE IN UPSTATE PORTION OF CWFA AS BOUNDARY... AND CONVECTIVELY-INDUCED OUTFLOW... CONTINUE SINKING SOUTH AND EAST. LUKS AS IF WE MAY BE ABLE TO REMOVE POPS FROM NORTH CAROLINA PORTION OF THE CWFA... ALL DEPENDENT ON VERY STRONG CONVECTIVE CELL APPROACHING THE CHARLOTTE METRO AREA. WILL DEFINITELY REMOVE POPS FROM NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS. WILL ALSO NEED TO MONITOR AREAS THAT SAW CONVECTION OVERNIGHT FOR THE FORMATION OF DENSE FOG LATER TONIGHT. DO NOT PLAN ON CHANGING TEMPERATURES TOO MUCH...BUT MAY HAVE TO RAISE A BIT UPSTATE/NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .GSP...NONE. BURRUS
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 2, 6:45 PM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
645 PM EDT TUE MAY 02 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
639 PM CORNELIUS NC .88 INCH HAIL
05/02/00 MECKLENBURG HAM OPERATOR HAD NICKEL
SIZE HAIL ON I-77 AT
CORNELIUS.
TJB
NNNNLocal storm report, May 2, 6:56 PM EDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
656 PM EDT TUE MAY 02 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
643 PM DAVIDSON NC .88 INCH HAIL
05/02/00 MECKLENBURG HAM RADIO SPOTTER HAD
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT
DAVIDSON COLLEGE ON
HIGHWAY 115.
TJB
NNNNLocal storm report, May 2, 7:34 PM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
734 PM EDT TUE MAY 02 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
728 PM NEAR SALISBURY NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/02/00 ROWAN ROWAN CO COMMUNICATIONS
REPORTED 3/4 TO ONE INCH
HAIL ON I-85 IN EASTERN
ROWAN COUNTY.
TJB
NNNNLocal storm report, May 2, 7:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
736 PM EDT TUE MAY 02 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
728 PM KANNAPOLIS NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/02/00 CABARRAS SPOTTER (DAVID BEAVER)
REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL IN
NORTHERN CABARRAS COUNTY
IN KANNAPOLIS AREA.
TJB
NNNNLocal storm report, May 2, 8:12 PM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
812 PM EDT TUE MAY 02 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
808 PM GREENVILLE SC .75 INCH HAIL
05/02/00 GREENVILLE SPOTTER REPORTED DIME SIZE
HAIL ON HIGHWAY 29 AT BOB
Z JONES UNIVERSITY IN
GREENVILLE.
TJB
NNNNLocal storm report, May 2, 8:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
826 PM EDT TUE MAY 02 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
813 PM GREENVILLE SC 58 MPH TSTM GUST
05/02/00 GREENVILLE GMU OR GREENVILLE DOWNTOWN
AIRPORT ASOS REPORTED PEAK
WIND OF 58 MPH WITH A
SQUALL.
TJB
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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.