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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 29, 2001Madison County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2001, 6:33 AM EDT for Madison County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 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 29, 2001, 6:33 AM EDT (10:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2001, 10:15 AM EDT
In force: 4 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 00:00Z, 10.6 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 192 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 291033
FFWGSP

NCC115-291415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
633 AM EDT SUN JUL 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 AM EDT

* WEATHER RADAR AT GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SHOWED A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS
  AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MADISON COUNTY...THAT EXTENDED WEST INTO 
  TENNESSEE. RAINFALL WITH THIS CLUSTER HAS BEEN TORRENTIAL NEAR 
  THE TENNESSEE BORDER...AND EVENTUALLY THE HEAVY RAIN WILL OVERSPREAD
  ALL OF THE COUNTY. FLOODING OF LITTLE LAUREL CREEK IS              
  EXPECTED...AS WELL AS ALONG OTHER NARROW STREAMS AND CREEKS IN
  THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY.

  FLOODING IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY ALONG MILL CREEK CREEK...AND IN THE 
  VICINITY OF HOT SPRINGS NEAR SPRING CREEK. A RAPID RISE COULD      
  OCCUR ALONG THE FRENCH BROAD RIVER BETWEEN MARSHALL AND HOT 
  SPRINGS LATER THIS MORNING.

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 WATERS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID
CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

$$

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 29, 6:19 AM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 6:19 AM EDT, 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
619 AM EDT SUN JUL 29 2001

JUST ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND UPDATED FORECAST FOR N MTNS AND
N FOOTHILLS OF NC FOR TODAY. ECHOES THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY
DISORGANISED HAVE STARTED TO TRAIN OVER THE AREA.

FCSTID = 77
GSP   87  70  89  71 /  70  30  40  20
AND   88  70  90  71 /  70  30  40  20
CLT   86  70  88  71 /  70  30  40  20
HKY   84  67  86  68 /  70  30  40  20
AVL   82  66  84  66 /  80  30  40  20

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY FOR ZONES NCZ033>034...
NCZ048>055...NCZ058>059.
SC...NONE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 10:12 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Madison	3 hr
Jul 29, 1:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Madison	3 hr

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.