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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2003, 7:02 PM EDT for Long County, Tattnall County, Georgia. It was in force for 88 min. 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 8, 2003, 7:02 PM EDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2003, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Long County, GA, Tattnall County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 772 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 082302 FFWCHS GAC183-267-090030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 702 PM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LONG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... TATTNALL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 702 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LARGE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN TATTNALL COUNTY AND WESTERN LONG COUNTY...MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT LESS THAN 10 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ALONG HIGHWAY 25 BETWEEN GLENNVILLE AND NOBLE SINCE 545 PM WITH AS MUCH AS 3 TO 4 INCHES JUST WEST OF NOBLE ALONG COUNTY ROAD 196 IN EXTREME SOUTHERN TATTNALL COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL 2 INCHES OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED OVER AREAS FROM JUST SOUTH OF GLENNVILLE TO DONALD THROUGH 830 PM. THIS WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. * FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR IN AND AROUND... DONALD... GLENNVILLE... HIGHWAY 25 BETWEEN GLENNVILLE AND DONALD... NOBLE... DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY FOR HIGHER GROUND. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3182 8202 3174 8193 3185 8176 3195 8193 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KCHS 082357 FFSCHS GAC183-267-090030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 757 PM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LONG AND TATTNALL COUNTIES UNTIL 830 PM EDT... AT 757 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN FALLING ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHERN TATTNALL COUNTY AND WESTERN LONG COUNTY. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN CURRENTLY DEVELOPING ACROSS APPLING AND WAYNE COUNTIES WILL MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE WARNING AREA THROUGH 830 PM. BOTH RADAR AND SATELLITE ESTIMATE BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ALONG HIGHWAY 25 BETWEEN GLENNVILLE AND DONALD. THIS HAS LIKELY RESULTED IN FLASH FLOODING ALONG THE HIGHWAY 25 CORRIDOR AND ALONG COUNTY ROAD 196 ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN TATTNALL COUNTY. WITH AN ADDITIONAL INCH LIKELY TO FALL IN THESE AREAS THROUGH 830 PM...THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING CONTINUES. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN AND AROUND...DONALD...GLENNVILLE... HIGHWAY 25 BETWEEN GLENNVILLE AND DONALD. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. LAT...LON 3185 8180 3175 8191 3184 8205 3196 8194 $$
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.