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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 25, 2001Caldwell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 2001, 7:03 PM EDT for Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 117 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
Jul 25, 2001, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 2001, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Caldwell County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2001-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 56 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2001-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
56 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
555 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 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 252304
FFWGSP
NCC027-260100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
703 PM EDT WED JUL 25 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 658 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN
  COVERING MOST OF CALDWELL COUNTY...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL
  GETTING READY TO MOVE IN FROM THE WEST. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
  OFFICIALS REPORT STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE RUNNING NEAR BANKFULL
  JUST EAST OF LENOIR...WITH SOME STANDING WATER ON 
  ROADS...ESPECIALLY ROUTE 321. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD VERY WELL  
  PRODUCE FLOODING ACROSS THE COUNTY.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. IF 
YOU ENCOUNTER STANDING WATER...STOP! TURN AROUND AND FIND ANOTHER
ROUTE TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION SAFELY. 

$$

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 Jul 25, 6:19 PM EDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 6:19 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
619 PM EDT WED JUL 25 2001

UPDATE FORTHCOMING TO ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR OUR FOUR SOUTHERNMOST
NORTHEAST GEORGIA COUNTIES...AND THE WESTERN MOST COUNTIES OF
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. RADAR SHOWS PRECIPITATION FILLING IN ONCE
AGAIN UPSTREAM...AND THIS RAIN WILL MOVE OVER LOCATIONS THAT HAVE
HAD JUST ABOUT ALL THE PRECIPITATION STREAMS...AND WET GROUND...CAN
ABSORB.

FCSTID = 44
GSP   71  87  71  85 /  70  50  40  40
AND   71  87  71  85 /  70  50  40  40
CLT   71  87  71  85 /  70  50  40  40
HKY   71  87  71  85 /  70  50  40  40
AVL   67  83  66  82 /  70  50  40  40

.GSP...
GA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 930 PM FOR ELBERT...FRANKLIN...HART
     AND STEPHENS COUNTIES.
NC...NONE.
SC...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 930 PM FOR GREATER OCONEE...GREATER
     PICKENS...ANDERSON...ABBEVILLE...GREENWOOD...GREENVILLE...
     LAURENS...SPARTANBURG.

BURRUS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 25, 4:48 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
448 PM EDT WED JUL 25 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

410 PM     6 W PIEDMONT              SC   FLASH FLOOD
07/25/01   ANDERSON                       WATER FLOWING FROM POND
                                          ONTO LAKE ROAD. REPORTED
                                          BY COUNTY 911.

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Local storm report, Jul 25, 4:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
459 PM EDT WED JUL 25 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

422 PM     GREENVILLE                SC   FLASH FLOOD
07/25/01   GREENVILLE                     RILEY SMITH BRIDGE CLOSED
                                          NEAR ROPER MOUNTAIN ROAD.
                                          REPORTED BY COUNTY 911.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 8:12 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPRutherford2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2001Every 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.