Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2001, 5:40 PM EDT for Madison County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 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 29, 2001, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2001, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 495 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1258 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS72 KGSP 292140 FFWGSP NCC115-300030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 540 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN MADISON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING IN SOUTHWEST MADISON COUNTY...ALONG THE SPRING CREEK BASIN TOWARD HOT SPRINGS. RAINFALL THAT HAS FALLEN SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON IS GREATER THAN THAT AMOUNT BELIEVED TO BE ABLE TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SHALLOW STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTH...BUT ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT UPSTREAM WAS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER THE SAME AREAS ALONG THE SPRING CREEK BASIN. EVENTUALLY...A NOTICEABLE RISE ON THE FRENCH BROAD RIVER AT HOT SPRINGS WILL BE NOTED...ALONG WITH OTHER STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE VICINITY OF HOT SPRINGS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS...ESPECIALLY ALONG SP6RING CREEK AND HIGHWAY 209. THE HEAVY RAIN COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. $$ 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 Jun 29, 3:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 3:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 303 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 2001 12Z ETA HAS DONE A GOOD JOB PICKING UP ON THE FEATURES NOTED ON THE 12Z H5 ANALYSIS. THAT BEING THE ONE VORT OVER THE MIDLANDS AND SANDHILLS...AND ANOTHER OVER ERN AND CENTRAL TN. THIS PUTS US BETWEEN THE FEATURES...AND THIS IS REFLECTED BY A RATHER QUITE CWA ATTM...EXCEPT THE WRN MTNS WHICH ARE FEELING THE INFLUENCE OF THE WRN VORT. HOWEVER...WITH A TROPICAL AIRMASS IN PLACE AND AN AIRMASS WHICH HAS NOT BEEN WORKED OVER HARDLY ANY AT ALL...THE THREAT FOR CONVECTION WILL EXTEND WELL INTO THE OVERNIGHT...ESP IN THE WRN ZONES. THUS...WL KEEP 50 POP IN THE MTN ZONES...40 WRN UPSTATE AND FOOTHILLS AND DROP IT BACK TO A 30 ERN ZONES. ANOTHER CHUNK OF THE COLD TROUGH DOWN OVER FL AFFECTS THE CWA TMRW AFTN. FEATURES ARE RATHER SUBTLE...AND I DON/T SEEN MUCH OF A SFC BNDRY TO INITIATE CONVECTION...BUT STILL FEEL 40 TO 50 POPS ARE WARRANTED. FLOW TURNS MORE WLY SAT NGHT AND SUN...AND IT LOOKS LIKE LAYER RH/S BEGIN TO DROP. WL LOWER POPS TO 30 ALL NON MTN ZONES. FOR THE EXTENDED...AVN STILL WANTS TO BRING FRONT INTO THE REGION MON...AND STALL IT OVER US. CAN/T DO ANY BETTER THAN CONTINUE POPS THROUGH THE EXTENDED ATTM. HOWEVER...WL LOWER POPS A LITTLE IN THE EXTENDED TO REPRESENT SLIGHTLY DRIER AIRMASS TUE-THU. FCSTID = 14 GSP 66 88 68 90 / 40 40 40 30 AND N 66 88 68 90 / 40 40 40 30 CLT 66 88 68 90 / 40 40 40 30 HKY 67 88 68 90 / 40 40 40 30 AVL 62 83 62 84 / 50 50 40 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MCAVOY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 11:51 AM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-300200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1151 AM EDT FRI JUN 29 2001 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... NEARLY SATURATED CONDITIONS CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. A WEAK UPPER LEVEL LOW...WHICH HAS PERSISTED OVER THE REGION FOR SEVERAL DAYS NOW...WILL ONCE AGAIN RESULT IN SCATTERED...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. IF ANY OF THESE SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS AFFECT AREAS WHICH HAVE RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS...LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING COULD RESULT. WHILE MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...ONE OR TWO MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY DAMAGING WINDS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION. MCAVOY
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.