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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Charleston, SC

September 18, 2002Bulloch County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 18, 2002, 6:51 PM EDT for Bulloch County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 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: Sep 18, 2002, 6:51 PM EDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired: Sep 18, 2002, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Bulloch County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 165 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1009 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

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

000 
WGUS52 KCHS 182251
FFWCHS
GAC031-182345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
650 PM EDT WED SEP 18 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL BULLOCH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT.

* AT 649 PM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING
  IN STATESBORO. SIMILAR CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY OCCURRING IN NEIGHBORING
  COMMUNITIES. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THE MODERATE TO HEAVY
  RAINS IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  STATESBORO...BROOKLET...GEORGIA SOUTHERN AND LEEFIELD.

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
FOR HIGHER GROUND. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.

$$

LAT...LON 3240 8179 3229 8177 3235 8164 3243 8155
          3253 8166

ST

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS72 KCHS 182353
FFSCHS
GAC031-190015-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
753 PM EDT WED SEP 18 2002

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

CENTRAL BULLOCH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...

HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

AROUND 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL ACROSS PARTS OF BULLOCH COUNTY THIS 
EVENING.  LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODED STREETS IN 
STATESBORO AND THAT THE 911 CENTER WAS FLOODED. 

THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA AND THE THREAT OF 
FLOODING HAS DIMINISHED. HOWEVER...PERIODS OF MODERATE RAIN WILL 
CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

$$

SCW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 18, 7:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CHS	Evans	81 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.