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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Charleston, SC

July 26, 2003Jenkins County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2003, 1:56 PM EDT for Jenkins County, Georgia. 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 2003, 1:56 PM EDT (17:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2003, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jenkins County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 186 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 502 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS52 KCHS 261758
FFWCHS
GAC165-262100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
156 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  JENKINS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 156 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING               
  COUNTY WIDE...WITH MORE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY           
  DEVELOPING SOUTH OF THE COUNTY NEAR METTER.  THIS ACTIVITY WILL    
  MOVE NORTH AT 15 MPH...PRODUCING ADDITIONAL RAINS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES.

* FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR IN AND AROUND...
  EMMALANE AND BUTTS...
  MILLEN...
  HERNDON...
  PERKINS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE RAPID FLOODING OF
ROADWAYS...SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...LOW-LYING AREAS AND DITCHES.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 
ROADWAY.  MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. 

DURING HEAVY RAINS...KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM STORM DRAINS...WATER 
CATCHMENTS...CREEKS AND STREAMS. SHALLOW GENTLY FLOWING WATER CAN 
RISE RAPIDLY IN A MATTER OF MINUTES.

LAT...LON 3292 8206 3292 8194 3296 8186 3290 8176
          3264 8189 3261 8201 3270 8211 3286 8217

$$

PY

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS72 KCHS 261917
FFSCHS
GAC165-262045-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
313 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR JENKINS COUNTY UNTIL
445 PM EDT...

AT 313 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE HEAVY RAINS ACROSS 
PORTIONS OF JENKINS COUNTY.  LAW ENFORCEMENT INDICATES THAT THERE IS 
WATER OVER HIGHWAY 25 BETWEEN MILLEN AND WAYNESBORO.  IN 
ADDITION...PORTIONS OF SAVANNAH ROAD AND SPENCER ROAD ARE WASHED OUT 
AT THIS TIME.  HEAVY RAINS OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY WILL 
CONTINUE TO PRODUCE ADDITIONAL RAINS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES.  

FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE IN AND 
AROUND...BUTTS...EMMALANE...MILLEN...PERKINS AND SCARBORO.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL
SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. REPORT ANY FLOODING OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY
FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND ASK THEM TO
IMMEDIATELY RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
CHARLESTON.

MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.

A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM. 

LAT...LON 3294 8180 3268 8187 3265 8202 3291 8211

$$

PY

000 
WGUS72 KCHS 262034
FFSCHS
GAC165-262100-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
431 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR JENKINS COUNTY UNTIL
500 PM EDT...

AT 431 PM...JENKINS COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STILL REPORT ROADS 
FLOODED ACROSS THE COUNTY.  SOME STREETS IN THE TOWN OF MILLEN ARE 
IMPASSABLE AND HAVE BEEN BLOCKED OFF.  THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL 
REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM.  A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 
6 PM.

RADAR INDICATES THAT MOST OF THE RAIN HAS EXITED JENKINS 
COUNTY...WHICH WILL ALLOW MOST OF THE WATER TO BEGIN RECEDING.  DO 
NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 
ROADWAY.  MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. 

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL 
SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. 

LAT...LON 3295 8184 3266 8187 3265 8203 3293 8210

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 11:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CHS	Chatham	4 hr

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.