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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 24, 2001Cleveland County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 2001, 11:10 PM EDT for Cleveland 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 24, 2001, 11:10 PM EDT (03:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2001, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Cleveland County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 553 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1280 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS52 KGSP 250309
FFWGSP
NCC045-250600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1110 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CLEVELAND COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 200 AM EDT

* AT 1055 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER CENTRAL CLEVELAND COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED 
  NEARLY 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN BETWEEN 10 AND 11 PM IN THE
  SHELBY AREA. SOME STREET FLOODING DUE TO STORM DRAINN BLOCKAGE HAS 
  ALREADY BEEN REPORTED BY THE 911 CENTER.

* HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES AN HOUR ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE
  UNTIL AT LEAST MIDNIGHT FROM STORMS DRIFTING NORTH ACROSS THE 
  COUNTY.

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

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.

$$

RBN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 9:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	28 min
Jun 25, 5:12 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cleveland	33 min
Jun 25, 5:20 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cleveland	3 hr
Jun 25, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rutherford	55 min
Jun 25, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk	51 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.