Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Mar 18, 2002, 6:38 AM EST for Madison 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
- Mar 18, 2002, 6:38 AM EST (11:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2002, 9:30 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:42 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 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 418 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 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 181138 FFWGSP NCC115-181430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 637 AM EST MON MAR 18 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 930 AM EST * AT 630 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED HEAVY RAINFALL STEADILY INCREASING ACROSS NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY. BANDS OF HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN WELL SOUTHWEST OF MADISON COUNTY...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. * THE LAUREL CREEK AREA...FROM BIG CREEK TO NEAR HOT SPRINGS...WILL BE THE MOST LIKELY LOCATION TO HAVE FLOODING THIS MORNING. HIGHWAYS ALONG THE CREEKS IN THAT AREA ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTY MAY HAVE SOME FLOODING...AND MUD AND ROCK SLIDES. TO REPORT FLOODING HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG. $$ JONES
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KGSP 181241 FFSGSP NCC115-181430- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 740 AM EST MON MAR 18 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 930 AM EST FOR MADISON COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA... STEADY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO AFFECT THE NORTHERN PART OF MADISON COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES HAVE BEEN BETWEEN 2 AND 3 TENTHS OF AN INCH PER HOUR FOR SEVERAL HOURS THIS MORNING. NORMALLY...THIS WOULD NOT BE A RATE LIKELY TO CAUSE FLOODING. HOWEVER...HEAVY RAIN WHICH FELL SUNDAY...ALONG WITH SOME FLOODING...AND ROCK AND MUD SLIDES...HAVE CAUSED A HIGHER RISK FOR FLOODING THIS MORNING. RADAR SHOWED THAT THE HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED WELL INTO EAST TENNESSEE...WITH SEVERAL BANDS OF INTENSE RAINFALL...WITH EVEN HIGHER RAINFALL RATES...LIKELY TO MOVE ACROSS MADISON COUNTY THIS MORNING. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN THE LAUREL CREEK AREA...REPORTED THROUGH THE MADISON COUNTY EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER...THAT THE CREEKS IN THE AREA WERE RUNNING AT BANKFULL. HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE MOUNTAINS MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING SEVERAL MILES DOWNSTREAM. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA SOURCE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS SITUATION. $$ JONES
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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.