Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2001, 1:57 AM EDT for Spartanburg 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
- Jun 25, 2001, 1:57 AM EDT (05:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2001, 5:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Spartanburg County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KGSP 250558 FFWGSP SCC083-250900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 157 AM EDT MON JUN 25 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SPARTANBURG COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 500 AM EDT * AT 145 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY...BETWEEN CROSS ANCHOR AND ENOREE. RADAR ESTIMATES ARE MORE THAN 6 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THE PAST FEW HOURS. HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO SHOWN CONTINUING OVER THE CITY OF SPARTANBURG...AND THE EASTERN HALF OF THE COUNTY. * FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY ALONG SMALL STREAMS IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY...AND FLOODING OF INTERSTATE 26 IS POSSIBLE NEAR THE LAURENS COUNTY BORDER. 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. 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. $$ NEAL/JONES
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 Jun 25, 12:20 AM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 12:20 AM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1220 AM EDT MON JUN 25 2001 QUICK UPDATE TO ADJUST POPS AND CLOUDS TO CURRENT RADAR AND SATELLITE TRENDS. FCSTID = 7 GSP 62 80 63 82 / 60 40 50 40 AND 63 81 63 83 / 30 40 50 40 CLT 64 78 64 81 / 50 40 50 30 HKY 60 76 62 76 / 50 40 50 30 AVL 57 72 58 75 / 30 40 50 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 24, 9:26 PM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
926 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
855 PM 6 NE GAFFNEY SC WIND DAMAGE
06/24/01 CHEROKEE FEW TREES REPORTED DOWN
BY EMERGENCY MANAGER...
ALSO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
REPORTED.
RBNLocal storm report, Jun 24, 10:28 PM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1028 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY L5OCATION....
955 PM SHELBY NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/24/01 CLEVELAND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY EOC.
RBLocal storm report, Jun 24, 11:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1106 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1100 PM SHELBY NC FLASH FLOOD
06/24/01 CLEVELAND EOC REPORTS STORM DRAINS
BLOCKED AND STREET
FLOODING...
RBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 12:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 4:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Union | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 33 min |
| Jun 25, 5:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 67 min |
| Jun 25, 2:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 55 min |
| Jun 25, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 6:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Laurens | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, York | 43 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in South 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.