Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2001, 4:58 PM EDT for Yancey County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr. 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 28, 2001, 4:58 PM EDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yancey County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 999 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 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 282058 FFWGSP NCC199-282300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 458 PM EDT THU JUN 28 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... YANCEY COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 442 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN YANCEY COUNTY WITH SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS. * THE AREA OF CONCERN IS MAINLY ALONG THE SOUTH TOE RIVER AND THE SMALL CREEKS AND RIVERS FEEDING INTO IT. ROUTE 80 MAY ALSO BE AFFECTED AROUND THE TOWN CELO. 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 WATEJRS. $$ RB
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 28, 2:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 2:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 209 PM EDT THU JUN 28 2001 NOT MUCH CHANGE IN THE PATTERN FOR THE SHORT TERM. UPPER LOW WL SLOWLY EDGE W OVER THE NEXT 48 HOURS...OR PERHAPS JUST STALL OVER THE MID MS RIVER VALLEY. IN FACT...THE MAJOR INFLUENCE IN OUR WX THE THE COUPLE DAYS WL NOT SO MUCH BE THE UPPER LOW...BUT AN AREA OF TROFINESS OVER THE ATLANTIC COAST. A LARGE AREA OF CONVECTION HAS FORMED AGAIN TDA UNDER THIS TROF...FROM CENTRAL FL N INTO THE MIDLANDS. THE ETA AND AVN LIFT AN OCCASIONAL WEAK VORT N OUT OF THE TROF AND ACROSS THE CWA OVER THE NEXT TWO DAYS. AS A RESULT...WE STAY IS A DEEP...MOIST SLY FLOW FOR A QUITE A WHILE. AS WAS THE CASE LAST NGHT...THIS MEANS THAT CONVECTION COULD FIRE ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME...THOUGH IT WL BE FAVORED IN THE AFTN AND EVENING. WL GO 50 POPS MTNS AND 40 POPS ELSEWHERE NEXT TWO PERIODS AND THEN JUST A 40 POP ALL ZONES. I AM SURE THAT AT SOME POINT OVER THE NEXT TWO DAYS WE WL GET A CATEGORICAL MCS...BUT I CAN/T REALLY SAY WHEN. HENCE THE RATHER HIGH CHANCE POPS. ANOTHER CONCERN IS POSSIBLE FLOODING. PARTS OF THE MTNS ARE QUITE WET NOW...W/3 HRLY FFG AS LOW AS 2 INCHES. WON/T ISSUE ANY KIND OF WATCH...BUT ADVISE EVENING SHIFT TO STRONGLY CONSIDER THE IDEA IF IT LOOKS LIKE MCS DEVELOPING TO OUR SE MAKES IT INTO THE CWA. FOR THE EXTENDED...THE LATEST AVN IS MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH THE LEAD SHORTWAVE DIVING INTO THE DEVELOPING E COAST LONGWAVE EARLY NEXT WEEK. IN FACT...THE AVN NOW HAS FROPA MON...A GOOD 2 DAYS FASTER THAN PREVIOUS THINKING. WL NOT WEIGHT THE AVN SOLUTION HEAVILY FOR NOW...AS OTHER TRENDS ARE POINTING TOWARD A SLOWER FRONT...BUT WILL LOWER TEMPS A LITTLE DAYS 6 AND 7. WL KEEP CHANCE POPS ALL 5 DAYS OF THE EXTENDED. FCSTID = 14 GSP 67 88 69 89 / 40 40 40 40 AND 67 88 69 89 / 40 40 40 40 CLT 67 88 69 89 / 40 40 40 40 HKY 66 87 67 88 / 40 40 40 40 AVL 64 83 64 84 / 50 50 40 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MCAVOY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 11:25 AM EDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-290200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1125 AM EDT THU JUN 28 2001 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... RECENT HEAVY RAIN HAS RESULTED IN NEARLY SATURATED CONDITIONS ACROSS PARTS OF THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. WHILE CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE AS WIDESPREAD TODAY...ANY STRONG...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRESENT A FLASH FLOODING THREAT OVER THE MOUNTAINS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS NOT BEEN ISSUED AS THE EXPECTED LACK OF HEAVY RAIN SHOULD PRECLUDE ANYTHING MORE THAN ISOLATED FLOODING PROBLEMS. IN ADDITION...A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS OVER THE REGION. WHILE THE SEVERE THREAT CONTINUES TO BECOME LESS PRONOUNCED AS AN UPPER LOW MOVES FARTHER TO THE WEST OF THE REGION...AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE ALMOST ANYWHERE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Madison | 3 hr |
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.