Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2003, 5:13 PM EDT for Liberty County, Georgia. It was in force for 2 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
- Aug 2, 2003, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2003, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Liberty County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 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 KCHS 022114
FFWCHS
GAC179-022315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
513 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 715 PM EDT
* AT 513 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING FROM
ALLENHURST TO HINESVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY
RAIN ARE MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
* FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR IN AND AROUND...
HINESVILLE...
FORT STEWART...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE RAPID FLOODING OF
ROADWAYS...SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...LOW-LYING AREAS AND DITCHES.
TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON AT 843-747-5046.
LAT...LON 3184 8169 3175 8155 3191 8145 3192 8149
3196 8158
$$
243 follow-up statements
000
WGUS72 KCHS 022146
FFSCHS
GAC179-022230-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
545 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2003
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LIBERTY COUNTY UNTIL
715 PM EDT...
AT 545 PM RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING SOUTH OF THE
CITY OF HINESVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE
OVER AREAS WHERE 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN LIBERTY COUNTY INDICATED THAT SEVERAL STREETS
HAVE BEGUN TO FLOOD IN HINESVILLE. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS
LIKELY IN AND AROUND HINESVILLE...FLEMINGTON...AND FORT STEWART
PRIOR TO 630 PM.
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN AND AROUND...ALLENHURST...FLEMINGTON...
FORT STEWART...HINESVILLE AND MCINTOSH.
TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON AT 843-747-5046.
LAT...LON 3180 8165 3177 8163 3172 8153 3181 8145
3194 8144 3196 8149 3195 8158
$$
24000
WGUS72 KCHS 022231
FFSCHS
GAC179-022315-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
630 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2003
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LIBERTY COUNTY UNTIL
715 PM EDT...
AT 630 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
REDEVELOPING NEAR ALLENHURST...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH TOWARD
HINESVILLE. IF ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES...THE FLASH FLOOD
WARNING MAY NEED TO BE EXTENDED.
FLASH FLOODING WAS OCCURRING IN AND AROUND...ALLENHURST...FLEMINGTON
...FORT STEWART...HINESVILLE AND MCINTOSH.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN HINESVILLE REPORTED SEVERAL ROADS WERE CLOSED
AND WERE CURRENTLY BEING BARRICADED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT. A HINESVILLE
RESIDENT REPORTED FLOOD WATERS WERE CIRCLING HER HOME AND WATER WAS
THREATENING TO ENTER THE HOUSE.
TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON AT 843-747-5046.
LAT...LON 3177 8164 3170 8148 3181 8147 3194 8141
3194 8158
$$
24000 WGUS72 KCHS 022315 FFSCHS GAC179-022345- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 715 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LIBERTY COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... HEAVY RAINS HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND ONLY LIGHT RAINS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS LIBERTY COUNTY. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXIRE AT 7:15 PM...HOWEVER SERIOUS FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE FOR MUCH OF THE EVENING HOURS AS RUNOFF IS EXPECTED TO BE SLOW. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. REPORT ANY FLOODING OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCMENT OFFICIALS AND ASK THEM TO IMMEDIATELY RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON. $$ 24
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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.