Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2000, 6:35 PM EDT for Laurens 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
- Jun 20, 2000, 6:35 PM EDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Laurens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1133 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 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 202234 FFWGSP SCC059-210030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 635 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LAURENS COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 632 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CEBTRAL AND EASTERN LAURENS COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY EAST. * EXPECT FLOODING IN AREAS INCLUDING THE CITIES OF LAURENS...CROSS HILL AND JOANNA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. 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. $$ RB/BWM
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 Jun 20, 2:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 2:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 200 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 2000 SOME INTERESTING WEATHER FEATURES FOR THE AREA THIS EVENING. A COLD FRONT WAS HOLDING NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON FROM JUST SOUTH OF THE CHARLOTTE METROPOLITAN AREA TO NEAR RUTHERFORDTON AND THEN NORTHWARD THRU THE NC MTNS. NORTH OF THE FRONT...IN THE NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS...TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE LOW AND MIDDLE 70S. MIDDLE AND UPPER 80S WERE COMMON SOUTH OF THE FRONT WITH UPPER 70S AND LOWER 80S WEST OF THE FRONT IN THE MTNS. AN UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL PUSH ACROSS THE CWA LATE THIS AFTN AND THIS EVENING ACCOMPANIED BY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND TSTMS. THE SHOWERS BEGAN OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST NC AND NE GA EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY AND COVERAGE AS THEY SPREAD EAST THROUGH THIS EVENING. WITH THE LACK OF WIND SHEAR AND STEEP LAPSE RATES OVER THE AREA...I EXPECT LITTLE ORGANIZED SEVERE BUT ENOUGH INSTABILITY IS PRESENT FOR AN ISOLATED DOWNBURST OR LARGE HAIL EVENT. I WILL CONTINUE CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS WEDNESDAY DUE TO GOOD INSTABILITY AND PLENTIFUL MOISTURE...KNOWING THERE WILL BE A FEW LOCAL BOUNDARIES TO PROVIDE LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE TO SET OFF MORE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER NEXT SHORT WAVE WITH SUPPORTING UPLIFT LOOKS TO BE COMING IN WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY AFTER DIURNAL COOLING. HIGH PRESSURE AND A DRIER AIR MASS WILL BUILD INTO THE CWA FOR THE WEEKEND. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS FOR COORDINATION... AVL 64/83/63/83 5/4/4/4 CLT 68/86/68/87 6/4/4/4 GSP 69/88/69/89 5/4/4/4 .GSP...NONE. RBN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 20, 5:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
507 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
545 PM GREENVILLE SC WIND DAMAGE
06/20/00 GREENVILLE GREENVILLE PD REPORTED
NUMEROUS TREES/LINES DOWN
ACROSS CITY. COUNTY
REPORTED SOME URBAN
FLOODING NEAR CITY.
JONES
NNNNLocal storm report, Jun 20, 5:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
507 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
445 PM GREENVILLE SC WIND DAMAGE
06/20/00 GREENVILLE GREENVILLE PD REPORTED
NUMEROUS TREES/LINES DOWN
J ACROSS CITY. COUNTY
REPORTED SOME URBAN
FLOODING NEAR CITY.
JONES
NNNNLocal storm report, Jun 20, 5:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
526 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
525 PM SIMPSONVILLE SC WIND DAMAGE
06/20/00 GREENVILLE SIMPSONVILLE PD REPORTED
TREES DOWN ALL OVER THE
CITY DURING THE PAST 5
MINUTES.
TJB
NNNNLocal storm report, Jun 20, 6:21 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
621 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
555 PM HICKORY TAVERN SC WIND DAMAGE
06/20/00 LAURENS LAURENS 911 RELAYED REPORT
OF TREES BLOWN DOWN AT
HICKORY TAVERN
555 PM GRAY COURT SC .75 INCH HAIL
06/20/00 LAURENS LAURENS 911 RELAYED REPORT
OF DIME SIZE HAIL
JONES
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 40 min |
| Jun 20, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens | 60 min |
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.