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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 24, 2001Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 2001, 8:12 PM EDT for Rutherford 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: Jul 24, 2001, 8:12 PM EDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 2001, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Rutherford County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 197 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 489 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS52 KGSP 250018
FFWGSP
NCC161-250215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
812 PM EDT TUE JUL 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT

* AT 805 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN FROM A SERIES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING REPEATEDLY
  NORTHWARD OVER CENTRAL RUTHERFORD COUNTY.

* RADAR HAS INDICATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THE
  VICINITY OF FOREST CITY AND POINTS NORTHWARD TOWARD SUNSHINE. AN
  ADDITIONAL 1 TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN ARE EXPECTED FROM THUNDERSTORMS
  MOVING NORTHWARD OUT OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN
  THE FOREST CITY AREA...AND ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 64...WILL
  LIKELY SPILL OUT OF THEIR BANKS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. EVEN MODERN SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES CANNOT BE SAFELY
DRIVEN THROUGH FLOOD WATERS.
$$
HG

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 Jul 24, 2:50 PM EDT, 5 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 2:50 PM EDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
250 PM EDT TUE JUL 24 2001

CWFA TO REMAIN UNDER WEAKNESS BETWEEN BERMUDA HIGH AND UPPER LEVEL
RIDGING OVER THE PLAINS AS VORT/UL SHEAR AXIS ON THIS MORNING'S
UA ANALYSIS...GRADUALLY LIFTS NORTH THROUGH WEDNESDAY. BROAD AND
DEEP...BUT RATHER WEAK SSE FLOW TONIGHT WILL VEER TO MORE SWLY
WEDNESDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH WEEK'S END AS TROPICAL PWAT VALUES
DECREASE ONLY SLIGHTLY.

KGSP 88D LOOPS SHOW TROPICAL LOOKING RETURNS IN THE WEAK/DEEP
SE FLOW ACRS THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS...WHILE ACRS ERN
SECTIONS OF THE CWFA...CLOSER TO STRONGER...SOUTHERLY LLVL
JET...STORMS SHOWING MORE MASS & SOME CG STRIKES. LATEST SFC
ANALYSIS SHOWS WELL DEFINED SFC TROUGH WELL TO SOUTH & MDL
FORECASTS DON'T INDICATE ANYTHING MORE THAN WEAK/SPURIOUS LLVL
CONVERGENCE AREAS OVER THE CWFA TONIGHT...BUT THEY DO INDICATE
STGR LLVL SLY WIND FLOW CLOSER TO THE COAST MIGRATING WEST...
INCREASING TO ABT 25 KTS ACRS MY ERN FRINGES. THIS...IN CONJUNCTION
WITH LIFT ALONG EAST SIDE OF UL SHEAR AXIS...SHOULD KEEP HIGHEST
QPF NEARER THIS AXIS...RATHER THAN IN ANY UPSLOPE AIDED PCPN ACRS
MTNS/FTHLS.

BY THE END OF THE SHORT RANGE...WELL DEFINED FRONTAL BNDRY PROGGED
TO BE LOCATED NEAR THE OHIO VALLEY WITH ASSOCIATED FRONTAL ZONE DEEP
CONVECTION W/NW OF THE MTNS. NEW AVN SAGS THIS FRONT INTO THE CWFA
FRIDAY AND SLOWLY DROPS SWD THRU THE WEEKEND. WILL CONTINUE POPS
FOR DAYS 3-5 & ADD FOR MONDAY.

FCSTID = 55
GSP   71  84  70  87 /  70  60  50  40
AND   71  84  70  87 /  70  60  50  40
CLT   71  84  70  87 /  70  60  50  40
HKY   71  84  70  87 /  70  60  50  40
AVL   68  80  66  83 /  70  60  50  40

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

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 7:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Caldwell	117 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.