Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Dec 24, 2002, 10:00 AM EST for Greenville County, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 4 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
- Dec 24, 2002, 10:00 AM EST (15:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greenville County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:02 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 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 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 241500 FFWGSP SCC045-083-241900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1000 AM EST TUE DEC 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SPARTANBURG COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA EASTERN GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 200 PM EST * AT 1000 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING OVER MUCH OF GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG COUNTIES. PUBLIC REPORTS AND REPORTS FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS INDICATE THAT STREAMS ARE APPROACHING BANKFULL AND WATER IS PONDING IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. * CREEKS AND STREAMS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING INCLUDE BRUSHY CREEK... GILDER CREEK IN GREENVILLE COUNTY. THE REEDY RIVER IN GREENVILLE WAS APPROACHING BANKFULL. IN SPARTANBURG... THE FRANKLIN STREET BRIDGE WAS FLOODED AT 950 AM. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. STAY AWAY FROM CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT PLAY IN RUSHING WATER. $$ LGL
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KGSP 241546 FFSGSP SCC045-083-241630- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1045 AM EST TUE DEC 24 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 200 PM EST FOR SPARTANBURG AND EASTERN GREENVILLE COUNTIES... HEAVY RAIN PERSISTED OVER PORTIONS OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA AT 1045 AM. THE RIVER GAGE ON BRUSHY CREEK IN THE DEL NORTE NEIGHBORHOOD OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INDICATES THAT THE STREAM IS OUT OF ITS BANKS. THE STAGE AT 1040 AM WAS 6.7 FEET. WATER COVERS BOILING SPRINGS ROAD AT BRUSHY CREEK AND SOME BACK YARDS IN DEL NORTE CONTAIN WATER WHEN THE STAGE IS ABOVE 6.0 FEET. AT 1045 AM... RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVY RAIN IN GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG COUNTIES WAS BEGINNING TO TAPER OFF JUST TO THE WEST OF GREENVILLE. RAIN WILL CONTINUE INTO THE AFTERNOON... BUT THE INTENSITY OF RAINFALL WILL DIMINISH IN GREENVILLE BEFORE NOON AND IN SPARTANBURG SHORTLY AFTER NOON. DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER. $$ LGL
000 WGUS72 KGSP 241702 FFSGSP SCC045-083-241745- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1201 PM EST TUE DEC 24 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 200 PM EST FOR SPARTANBURG AND EASTERN GREENVILLE COUNTIES... JUST BEFORE NOON... THE RAIN GAUGE IN THE DEL NORTE NEIGHBORHOOD OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INDICATED BRUSHY CREEK HAD RISEN TO ABOVE 7 FEET. AT A STAGE OF 6 FEET... BOILING SPRINGS ROAD IS FLOODED AND WATER IS FOUND IN BACK YARDS. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY REPORTED SOME FLOODING CAUSED BY POOR DRAINAGE ON FRANKLIN STREET IN SPARTANBURG AND ON JAN STREET IN LANDRUM. HEAVY RAIN WAS TAPERING OFF ACROSS THE GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG AREAS AT NOON. LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUED IN SOME AREAS. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS NOT LIKELY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. THUS... THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL PROBABLY BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 200 PM. DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER. $$ LGL
000 WGUS72 KGSP 241800 FFSGSP SCC045-083-241900- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 100 PM EST TUE DEC 24 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 200 PM EST FOR SPARTANBURG AND GREENVILLE COUNTIES... THE HEAVY RAIN THAT BROUGHT CREEKS TO BANKFULL AND CAUSED MINOR FLOODING IN GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG COUNTIES HAS MOVED INTO THE CENTRAL CAROLINAS. SOME LIGHT RAIN WILL OCCUR FROM TIME TO TIME THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING BUT SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL TOTALS WILL NOT OCCUR IN THE UPSTATE. WATER LEVELS ON BRUSHY CREEK IN GREENVILLE COUNTY AND OTHER STREAMS THROUGHOUT THE AREA WILL FALL SLOWLY DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 200 PM EST. EVEN THOUGH STREAM LEVELS ARE LOWERING... WATER COULD REMAIN ALONG ROADS AND OTHER LOW-LYING AREAS THAT DO NOT DRAIN RAPIDLY. FOR THAT REASON... CAUTION IS URGED WHILE DRIVING EVEN THOUGH RAIN MIGHT NOT BE FALLING. $$ LGL
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 Dec 24, 9:15 AM EST, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 9:15 AM EST, 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 915 AM EST TUE DEC 24 2002 ONLY MINOR CHANGES TO FORECAST AT 930. SNOW IS REPORTED BY SEVERAL STATIONS IN NC MOUNTAINS AND PIEDMONT. HOWEVER TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE UPPER 30S SO NO ACCUMULATION EXPECTED TODAY. NO CHANGES IN FLASH FLOOD WATCH. PRECIP ACCUMULATIONS ARE APPROACHING TWO INCHES. ONE NOTE...RADAR IS OVERESTIMATING PRECIP BY AT LEAST A FACTOR OF TWO. RUC HAS HEAVIEST PRECIP OUT OF THE AREA BY 18Z WITH ANOTHER MINOR SHOT COMING IN LATER TONIGHT. .GSP... GA...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT GAZ010-017>018-026-028. NC...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT NCZ051-058>059-062>067. SC...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT SCZ001>007-010. DICARLO
Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 24, 6:05 AM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-241300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 605 AM EST TUE DEC 24 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... WIDESPREAD RAIN...FALLING HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING. A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF THE AREA. FOR FURTHER DETAILS...PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FFAGSP ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WINDY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP CHRISTMAS DAY. SNOW SHOWERS ARE LIKELY ACROSS PARTS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS AS WELL...WITH SOME ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY FLOODING OR AREAS OF HIGH WATER WHICH ARE OBSERVED. 55
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.