Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this flash flood warning at May 1, 2003, 1:04 PM EDT for Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 116 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
- May 1, 2003, 1:04 PM EDT (17:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2003, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chatham County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:06 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 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 011705 FFWCHS GAC051-011900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 104 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN CHATHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 102 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING ACROSS MUCH OF THE INTERSTATE 95 CORRIDOR FROM MONTEITH TO BLOOMINGDALE. RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN WITH HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA OVER SINCE 11 AM. THIS IS LIKELY CAUSING FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN URBANIZED AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. * FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR IN AND AROUND... POOLER AND BLOOMINGDALE... MONTEITH AND MEINHARD... 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 3212 8135 3207 8128 3218 8114 3222 8121 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KCHS 011754 FFSCHS GAC051-011915- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 153 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN CHATHAM COUNTY UNTIL 300 PM EDT... AT 153 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN FALLING ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN CHATHAM COUNTY...MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 95 CORRIDOR. RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN 3 AND 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THIS AREA SINCE 11 AM AND FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY OCCURRING AT THIS TIME. THE RAIN HAS SHOWN SIGNS OF WEAKENING OVER THE PAST 15 MINUTES... HOWEVER ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHWEST INTO THE WARNING AREA FROM JASPER AND BEAUFORT COUNTIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA. THIS WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE ANY FLOODING THAT IS ALREADY IN PROGRESS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. REPORT ANY FLOODING OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND ASK THEM TO IMMEDIATELY RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON. $$ ST
000 WGUS72 KCHS 011900 FFSCHS GAC051-011930- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 300 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WESTERN CHATHAM COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... THE HEAVY RAIN WHICH PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. ALTHOUGH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE...THE THREAT FOR WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING AS ENDED. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN 4 AND 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN BLOOMINGDALE AND MONTEITH SINCE 11 AM WITH 2 TO 3 INCHES COMMON ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF WESTERN CHATHAM COUNTY. 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. $$ ST
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.