Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Issued

May 30, 2002, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)

Expired

May 30, 2002, 7:45 PM EDT

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Area

Whole counties

County Mecklenburg County, NC

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000 
WGUS52 KGSP 302144
FFWGSP
NCC119-302345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
543 PM EDT THU MAY 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 534 PM EDT...AMATEUR RADIO WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED VERY       
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY...INCLUDING
  THE NORTHERN EDGE OF CHARLOTTE. RAIN WAS HEAVY ENOUGH TO
  FILL ALL DRAINAGE DITCHES IN THE VICINITY OF THE CHARLOTTE
  DOUGLAS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...AND NUMEROUS CREEKS...INCLUDING
  SUGAR AND LITTLE SUGAR CREEKS...WERE AT BANKFULL.

  ANOTHER BAND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR OVER CENTRAL
  MECKLENBURG COUNTY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. RAINFALL 
  WILL BE ENOUGH TO SEND MANY STREAMS AND CREEKS OUT OF THEIR
  BANKS...POSSIBLY FLOODING ROADS...AND THREATENING HOMES AND
  PROPERTY.

  DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
  IF YOU ENCOUNTER STANDING WATER...STOP TURN AROUND AND FIND
  AN ALTERNATE ROUTE TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION SAFELY.

$$
BURRUS

000 
WGUS72 KGSP 302231
FFSGSP
NCC119-302300-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
630 PM EDT THU MAY 30 2002

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR MECKLENBURG COUNTY UNTIL 745 
PM...

SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ALL 
ACROSS MECKLENBURG COUNTY LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON...WITH THE 
HEAVIEST RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN THE EXTREME EASTERN...AND 
WESTERN...HALVES OF THE COUNTY. AN AUTOMATED RAIN GAGE AT BERRYHILL 
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL...IN WESTERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY...REPORTED 3.1 
INCHES OF RAIN SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON...WITH ANOTHER GAGE AT BELLE 
OAKS FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTING 2.3 INCHES. PINEY GROVE ELEMENTARY 
SCHOOL REPORTED 1.8 INCHES OF RAIN. OVER AN INCH OF RAIN FELL AT 
CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT BETWEEN 5 PM AND 6 PM.

STANDING WATER AND NUISANCE FLOODING WAS ON THE INCREASE DURING THE 
RUSH HOUR ACROSS MECKLENBURG COUNTY. CHARLOTTE POLICE REPORT 
STANDING WATER AT THE INTERSECTION OF FREEDOM AND ASHLEY IN DOWNTOWN
CHARLOTTE...AND OVER A FOOT OF WATER WAS COVERING MONROE ROAD ON THE
EASTERN SIDE OF THE CITY. MATTHEWS POLICE WERE DIRECTING 
TRAFFIC AROUND STANDING WATER ON SAM NEWELL ROAD NEAR CROWN POINT.

THE SLOW MOVING STORMS WILL ONLY SLOWLY WEAKEN OVER THE NEXT COUPLE 
OF HOURS...AND THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR NEW FLOODING TO BEGIN...OR 
FOR ONGOING NUISANCE FLOODING TO BECOME MORE SEVERE. 

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. 
VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER 
GROUND. EVEN MODERN SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES CAN BE SWEPT AWAY BY A FEW
FEET OF WATER.

$$
BURRUS

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.