Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 2002, 9:22 AM EDT for Mecklenburg 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
- Jul 14, 2002, 9:22 AM EDT (13:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2002, 12:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mecklenburg County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:25 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 448 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KGSP 141322 FFWGSP NCC119-141615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 920 AM EDT SUN JUL 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1215 PM EDT * AS OF 900 AM EDT AN AUTOMATED SENSOR ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF CHARLOTTE REPORTED 2.07 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN ABOUT 90 MINUTES TIME. THIS HAS RESULTED IN RAPID RISES ON LOCAL CREEKS...PARTICULARLY LITTLE HOPE CREEK AT SENECA PLACE IN CHARLOTTE. OTHER GAGES IN THE AREA HAVE HAD UP TO 1.50 INCHES OF RAIN. * THIS AREA IS PRONE TO URBAN FLOODING DURING HEAVY RAIN. OTHER HEAVY SHOWERS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH 10 AM...AND UP TO AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN MAY FALL. OTHER STREAMS THAT MAY RAPIDLY RISE TO FLOOD STAGE IF THE RAIN PERSISTS INCLUDE IRWIN CREEK AND LITTLE SUGAR AND SUGAR CREEKS ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF CHARLOTTE. DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS...URBAN FLOODING CAN OCCUR IN AREAS SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...AND LOW AREAS WHERE WATER TENDS TO COLLECT. CHILDREN SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM SMALL STREAMS AND STORM DRAINS. PEOPLE DRIVING TO SUNDAY SERVICES SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO STREAM LEVELS IN THEIR AREA. NEVER DRIVE THROUGH A WATER COVERED ROADWAY. $$ MCAVOY
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KGSP 141449 FFSGSP NCC119-141615- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1049 AM EDT SUN JUL 14 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1215 PM EDT FOR MECKLENBURG COUNTY... AT 1048 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW HEAVY RAIN OCCURING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF CHARLOTTE. AUTOMATED RIVER GAGES INDICATE THAT STREAMS ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF CHARLOTTE...ESPECIALLY THE LITTLE SUGAR CREEK...ARE RUNNING NEAR BANKFULL. MECKLENBURG COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS REPORTED THAT STANDING WATER ON AREA ROADS HAVE CAUSED SEVERAL ACCIDENTS. DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS...URBAN FLOODING CAN OCCUR IN AREAS SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...AND LOW AREAS WHERE WATER TENDS TO COLLECT. CHILDREN SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM SMALL STREAMS AND STORM DRAINS. DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS. $$ HANDEL
000 WGUS72 KGSP 141626 FFSGSP NCC119-141630- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1224 PM EDT SUN JUL 14 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR MECKLENBURG COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AS OF 1215 PM EDT... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED...ENDING THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT. NO REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT FLOODING WERE RECEIVED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ HANDEL
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 14, 4:18 AM EDT, 5 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 4:18 AM EDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 418 AM EDT SUN JUL 14 2002 PRECIP DIMINISHING ACROSS CWFA AS UPSLOPE FLOW AND ISENTROPIC LIFT END. MDLS INDICATE THIS AND EVEN HAVE FLOW BECOMING WLY TODAY. DEEP MOISTURE EXITS BUT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS HIGH. DAMMING MIXING OUT AS DEW POINTS QUITE HIGH AND FAIRLY UNIFORM. SFC TROF AND LOW PRESSURE LINGER OVER THE AREA. UPPER DIVERGENCE LACKING BUT ATMOS IS UNSTABLE. WITH CONFLICTING PARAMETERS WILL LOWER POP TO 50 ALL AREAS TODAY. WILL LEAVE EVENING POP TONIGHT AND CHC POP MONDAY. DATA AGAIN CONFLICTING MONDAY...BUT EVEN ETA WHICH DEVELOPS A MID LEVEL INVERSION DOES NOT SHOW A CAP. DECIDED TO REMOVE PRECIP FROM MTNS TUE GIVEN MAV POPS BELOW CLIMO. OTHERWISE NO CHANGES TO EXTENDED. GSP 85 70 90 71 / 50 30 30 20 AND 86 71 91 72 / 50 30 30 20 CLT 85 70 90 71 / 50 30 30 20 HKY 81 69 89 70 / 50 30 30 20 AVL 80 65 86 66 / 50 30 30 20 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RWH
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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.