Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 2001, 6:16 PM EDT for Greenville County, South 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
- Sep 3, 2001, 6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2001, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenville County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 032218 FFWGSP SCC045-040115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 616 PM EDT MON SEP 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 915 PM EDT * AT 610 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY. RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES IN AN HOUR HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THIS AREA FROM MAULDIN TO SIMPSONVILLE AND FOUNTAIN IN. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR A WHILE LONGER WITH UP TO AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN EXPECTED. * GILDER CREEK IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF GREENVILLE COUNTY WAS REPORTED TO BE AT BANKFULL AT THE ADAMS MILL BRIDGE. THERE WILL ALSO BE URBAN FLOODING IN THE GOLDEN STRIP AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. $$ MCAVOY
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 Sep 3, 3:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 3:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 344 PM EDT MON SEP 3 2001 STILL WE WAIT FOR THE UPPER TROF AXIS TO OUR WEST...AND ACCOMPANYING UPPER LOW...TO SHIFT EAST...BUT COMPOSITE RADAR LOOPS HAVE INDICATED THAT THE SHIFT MAY HAVE BEGUN DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE AFTERNOON. SAME INGREDIENTS IN PLACE FOR HEAVY RAIN PRODUCTION...ALTHOUGH AM SORT OF SURPRISED THAT WE HAVE NOT SEEN MORE UPSLOPE SHOWERS DEVELOPING SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN AREAS. STILL...WITH A FEW BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS AND DAYTIME HEATING...CONVECTION HAS INITIATED IN VARIOUS PLACES ACROSS THE CWFA. OLD SURFACE CONVERGENCE BOUNDARY HAS SHIFTED NORTHEAST OUT OF THE CWFA. BEST LIFT APPEARS FOR LATE TONIGHT THROUGH FIRST HALF OF THE OVERNIGHT. MODELS SHUNT THE UPPER VORT SOUTH (OR EAST...DEPENDING ON MODELS) OF THE CURRENT WATCH AREA LATE TUESDAY MORNING...WITH DRYING SHOWING UP ON TIME SECTIONS IN THE NORTH. WAS TEMPTED TO DROP WATCH ALTOGETHER...BUT AFTER LOOKING AT NCEP QPF...AND WITH CWFA IN THE EXECSSIVE RAINFALL CATEGORY ON THEIR GRAPHICS...IT IS BEST TO MAINTAIN THE FLOOD WATCH WHERE IT CURRENTLY STANDS UNTIL MIDDAY TUESDAY. QPF NOT AS GREAT...BUT WITH CONVECTION POSSIBLE..AND STUBBORN UPSLOOPE CONTINUING...NOT TO MENTION NEARLY SATURATED GROUND FROM RAINFALL EARLIER TODAY. FORCING FOR PRECIP WILL NOT BE AS GREAT TO OUR NORTHEAST ZONES...WHICH IS FORTUNATE BECAUSE THAT REGION RECEIVED THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL EARLIER TODAY. ANYWAY...DECISION HAS BEEN MADE AND THE WATCH IS OUT FOR ANOTHER OVERNIGHT PERIOD. LOTS OF OTHER SUPPORTING FACTORS (AND A FEW NEGATING ONES). TRIED TO DEPICT A DECREASING TREND IN ZONES FOR LATER TUESDAY. OTHERWISE...AVN MAINTAINS AN EASTERLY FLOW INTO THE SOUTHERN ZONES THURSDAY...SO HAVE INTRODUCED CHANCE OF CONVECTION UPSTATE/NORTHEAST GEORGIA...THEN EVERYONE WITH A CHANCE FRIDAY AHEAD OF THE NEXT FRONT. FURTHER ON IN THE WEEK...FOLLOWING THE WEEKEND FROPA...MONDAY LOOKS DRY WITH STRONG SURFACE RIDGE PROGGD TO BUILD DOWN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. FCSTID = 44 GSP 70 79 68 85 / 100 80 30 30 AND 70 79 68 85 / 100 80 30 30 CLT 68 78 67 84 / 70 60 20 30 HKY 65 75 62 80 / 100 80 20 30 AVL 65 75 62 80 / 100 80 30 30 .GSP... GA...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH NOON TUESDAY FOR ZONES GAZ010...GAZ017>018...GAZ026...GAZ028>029. NC...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH NOON TUESDAY FOR ZONES NCZ033>034...NCZ048>055...NCZ058>059...NCZ062>067. SC...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH NOON TUESDAY FOR ZONES SCZ001>007...SCZ010>012...SCZ019. BURRUS
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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.