Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Oct 16, 2002, 2:41 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, 2:41 AM EDT (06:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2002, 4:30 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 06:43 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, 6.7 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 160641 FFWGSP SCC045-160830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 232 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 430 AM EDT * AT 230 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL WAS SLOWLY TAPERING OFF TO SCATTERED SHOWERS. THE REEDY RIVER AT GREENVILLE...HOWEVER...CONTINUES TO RISE WITH SOME STREET FLOODING REPORTED. THE REEDY RIVER WAS AT 8.8 FEET AND RISING AT 230 AM. BRUSHY CREEK AT DEL NORTE WAS RUNNING ABOUT 6.3 FEET AND STILL RISING AS WELL. * FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED ALONG HAMMETT STREET NEAR OLD BUNCOMBE ROAD IN DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE. FLOODING ALONG THE REEDY RIVER COULD CONTINUE TO AFFECT ADJACENT STREETS THIS MORNING BEFORE THE RIVER STARTS TO RECEDE AFTER 4 AM. FLOODING OF BOILING SPRINGS ROAD NEAR BRUSHY CREEK AT DEL NORTE IS LIKELY AS WELL. SIGNIFICANT PONDING OF WATER CAN BE EXPECTED IN LOW SPOTS COUNTYWIDE. 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. $$ HG
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KGSP 160744 FFSGSP SCC045-160830- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 340 AM EDT WED OCT 16 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 430 AM EDT FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY... AT 335 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE WIDESPREAD MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL THAT HAS BEEN AFFECTING GREENVILLE COUNTY WAS PULLING NORTH OF THE AREA. ONLY SCATTERED LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED THIS MORNING ALONG THE REEDY RIVER IN DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE. AT 335 AM...THE REEDY RIVER STAGE HAD RISEN TO 8.9 FEET. AN ADDITIONAL RISE TO NEAR 9 FEET IS EXPECTED AFTER 4 AM...THEN THE REEDY RIVER SHOULD BEGIN FALLING. FLOODING WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH 430 AM IN AND NEAR CLEVELAND PARK...AND ALONG HAMMETT ROAD NEAR OLD BUNCOMBE ROAD IN DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE. AT 335 AM...BRUSHY CREEK AT DEL NORTE WAS RUNNING JUST ABOVE 6 FEET. BRUSHY CREEK IS EXPECTED TO SLOWLY FALL AFTER 4 AM. HOWEVER... BOILING SPRINGS ROAD AT DEL NORTE MAY CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE FLOODING. ADDITIONALLY...LOW SPOTS IN ROADWAYS COUNTYWIDE WILL EXHIBIT SIGNIFICANT STANDING WATER THROUGH 4 AM. MANY OTHER STREAMS AND CREEKS MAY RUN QUITE HIGH. DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS...SEVERE URBAN FLOODING CAN OCCUR IN AREAS SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...AND LOW AREAS WHERE WATER TENDS TO COLLECT. IF DRIVING...BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. USE CAUTION IN OR NEAR ANY SMALL CREEK TONIGHT...AND AVOID ROUTES THAT YOU KNOW ARE FLOOD PRONE. $$ HG
000 WGUS72 KGSP 160835 FFSGSP SCC045-160845- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 434 AM EDT WED OCT 16 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AS OF 430 AM EDT... AT 430 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED ONLY ISOLATED LIGHT RAIN ACROSS GREENVILLE COUNTY. NO ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED...AND THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. THE REEDY RIVER IN GREENVILLE HAS CRESTED NEAR 9.0 FEET AND SHOULD CONTINUE A STEADY FALL THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. NO ADDITIONAL REPORTS OF FLOODING ALONG THE REEDY RIVER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED... HOWEVER SOME MINOR FLOODING IN THE CLEVELAND PARK AREA MAY CONTINUE BEYOND THE EXPIRATION OF THE WARNING. THE BRUSHY CREEK AT DEL NORTE ROSE TO 6.3 FEET AROUND 3 AM THIS MORNING. IT NOW CONTINUES A STEADY FALL...AND WAS RUNNING 5.1 FEET AT 430 AM. NO ADDITIONAL FLOODING ALONG BRUSHY CREEK IS EXPECTED. STANDING WATER MAY PERSIST IN LOW SPOTS THROUGH DAYBREAK...AND STREAMS WILL LIKELY RUN MUCH HIGHER THAN NORMAL THIS MORNING...BUT NO ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED. $$ 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, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 11:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 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, 20 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, 12:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville | 109 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.