Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Oct 16, 2002, 12:41 AM EDT for Greenville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 109 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
- Oct 16, 2002, 12:41 AM EDT (04:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2002, 2:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 109 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenville County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:41 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 160441 FFWGSP SCC045-160630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1233 AM EDT WED OCT 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 230 AM EDT * AT 1230 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS GREENVILLE COUNTY. LOCAL 1/2 TO 1 INCH PER HOUR RAINFALL RATES WILL AFFECT THE AREA OVER THE NEXT 2 HOURS...PUSHING STREAMS AND CREEKS ABOVE BANKFULL. * THE REEDY RIVER IN GREENVILLE IS EXPECTED TO RISE TO ABOVE 9 FEET BETWEEN 1 AND 2 AM...FLOODING PORTIONS OF CLEVELAND PARK. ANY FURTHER RISES EARLY THIS MORNING COULD THREATEN ADJACENT STREETS AND BUILDINGS. 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. $$ HG
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KGSP 160550 FFSGSP SCC045-160630- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 145 AM EDT WED OCT 16 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 230 AM EDT FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY... AT 140 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE HEAVY RAIN FALLING ACROSS GREENVILLE COUNTY. THIS RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO TAPER OFF FROM THE SOUTHWEST TO SCATTERED SHOWERS BETWEEN 2 AND 3 AM...HOWEVER AN ADDITIONAL 1/2 INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE. AT 140 AM...THE REEDY RIVER IN GREENVILLE WAS AT 8.7 FEET. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IN CLEVELAND PARK BEGINS AT ABOUT 8.0 FEET. BRUSHY CREEK AT DEL NORTE WAS RUNNING AT 5.6 FEET. THE BRUSHY CREEK MAY REACH 6.0 AROUND 2 AM...CREATING FLOODING CONDITIONS ALONG BOILING SPRINGS ROAD AT DEL NORTE. OTHER STREAMS AND CREEKS AROUND THE COUNTY WILL LIKELY ALSO RUN NEAR BANKFULL EARLY THIS MORNING...AND SIGNIFICANT STANDING WATER IS EXPECTED IN THE NORMALLY POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS...SEVERE URBAN FLOODING CAN OCCUR IN AREAS SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...AND LOW AREAS WHERE WATER TENDS TO COLLECT. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. USE CAUTION IN OR NEAR ANY SMALL CREEK TONIGHT...AND AVOID ROUTES THAT YOU KNOW ARE FLOOD PRONE. $$ HG
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 Oct 15, 11:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 11:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1120 PM EDT TUE OCT 15 2002 CURRENT RADAR IMAGERY CONTINUES TO INDICATE FAIRLY LARGE AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE UPSTATE THROUGH THE SOUTHERN NC MNTNS. BACK EDGE OF THIS RAIN SHIELD CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE GA/SC BORDER...WITH ONLY SCATTERED SHOWERS LINGERING FURTHER WEST INTO NORTH GEORGIA. WE WILL EXTEND CATEGORICAL POPS/HEAVY RAIN WORDING INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ACROSS THE UPSTATE AND NC MNTNS...BUT SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL SHOULD BE ENDING IN THESE AREAS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. FURTHER NORTH AND EAST...CAT POPS WILL BE RETAINED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD. ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS AS IF THE AXIS OF HEAVIEST RAIN WILL BE IMMEDIATELY ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE...WHERE LIFT WILL BE AIDED BY STRONG UPSLOPE FLOW...WE WILL ALLOW THE FLOOD WATCH TO REMAIN IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT. OTHERWISE...WILL REFLECT TEMPS ACTUALLY RISING A COUPLE OF DEGREES OVERNIGHT IN THE UPSTATE AND SOUTHERN NC FOOTHILLS...AS SURFACE COLD POOL CONTINUES TO DECAY. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ033>037...NCZ048>050...NCZ052>057...NCZ064>072...NCZ082. SC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES SCZ003...SCZ006>009. LANE
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 15, 6:11 AM EDT, 18 hours 30 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-151215- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 611 AM EDT TUE OCT 15 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT WITH THE THREAT OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND ADJACENT AREAS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE. FOR FURTHER DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD WATCH...FFAGSP...AND SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SPSGSP...ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WINDY CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS HIGHER ELEVATIONS ARE LIKELY ON WEDNESDAY. FOR FURTHER DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SPSGSP...ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. SOME FROST WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. 55
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville | 109 min |
Nearby
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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.