Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Feb 22, 2003, 7:06 PM EST for Mitchell County, Yancey 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
- Feb 22, 2003, 7:06 PM EST (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mitchell County, NC, Yancey County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 344 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 230006 FFWGSP NCC121-199-230300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 706 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MITCHELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA YANCEY COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1000 PM EST * AT 705 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ENTERING YANCEY AND MITCHELL COUNTIES. UP TO AN INCH OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED IN THIS AREA...AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. * LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS THAT THE NOLICHUCKY AND NORTH TOE RIVERS...ALONG HIGHWAY 197...WERE ABOUT TO GO OUT OF THEIR BANKS. LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE NORTH TOE WHEN IT FLOODS IN THIS AREA INCLUDES ALTAPASS...PIGEON ROOST AND HUNTDALE. RESIDENTS OF THE THE DUNCAN TRAILER PARK SHOULD ALSO MONITOR THE TOE RIVER AND PREPARE TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOOD WATERS GO HIGH ENOUGH. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. $$ MCAVOY
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KGSP 230128 FFSGSP NCC021-121-199-230315- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 820 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 PM EST FOR MITCHELL AND YANCEY COUNTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA... ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1015 PM EST FOR BUNCOMBE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA... AT 820 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM HENDERSONVILLE TO BLACK MOUNTAIN TO BAKERSVILLE. THIS LINE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EASTWARD AT 25 MPH. COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTERS REPORT THAT FLOODING HAS ALREADY DEVELOPED IN THE 300 BLOCK OF WEAVERVILLE HIGHWAY IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY. FLOODING HAS ALSO IMPACTED THE 600 BLOCK OF MACEDONIA ROAD AND HOLLAND STREET IN ASHEVILLE...WITH SIGNIFICANT MUDSLIDES DEVELOPING ALONG NORTH CAROLINA ROUTE 63. THE NORTH TOE AND NOLICHUCKY RIVERS CONTINUE TO RUN QUITE HIGH NEAR THE BORDER BETWEEN MITCHELL AND YANCEY COUNTIES. HIGHWAY 197 COULD BE AFFECTED IN THIS AREA. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP FROM THE SOUTHWEST INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS OVER THE NEXT HOUR. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE AFFECTED AREA WILL LIKELY RUN QUITE HIGH FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. USE CAUTION IN OR NEAR ANY SMALL CREEK TONIGHT...AND AVOID ROUTES THAT YOU KNOW ARE FLOOD PRONE. DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER. $$ HG
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Feb 22, 6:56 PM EST, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 6:56 PM EST, 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
656 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003
ISSUING UPDATE TO EXTEND THE FLOOD WATCH TO ALL NC MTN COUNTIES AND
NE GA MTN COUNTIES. SEVERAL STREAMS ARE RUNNING QUITE FULL...AND
LATEST ROUND OF CONVECTION PROMISES TO TRAIN NWD FROM THE FRENCH
BROAD TO THE TOE AND NOLICHUCKY RIVERS. WILL ALSO TRIM ROWAN COUNTY
FROM THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY AS WARM FRONT HAS LIFTED JUST TO THE
NORTH. POPS HAVE BEEN RAISED ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA AS WELL.
FCSTID = 44
GSP 43 57 37 60 / 40 10 20 20
AND 44 59 36 61 / 40 0 20 20
CLT 45 60 37 59 / 40 0 20 20
HKY 41 54 35 55 / 50 10 20 20
AVL 40 50 33 55 / 50 10 20 20
.GSP...
GA...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH MIDNIGHT FOR ZONES GAZ010...GAZ017.
WIND ADVISORY FOR AREA LAKES ALL.
NC...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH MIDNIGHT FOR ZONES
NCZ033...NCZ048>053...NCZ058>059...NCZ062>065.
WIND ADVISORY FOR LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY FOR ZONES
NCZ033...NCZ048>050.
WIND ADVISORY FOR AREA LAKES ALL ELSE.
DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR THIS EVENING FOR ZONES
NCZ034>037...NCZ054>056.
SC...WIND ADVISORY FOR AREA LAKES ALL.
BURRUS/HGHazardous weather outlook, Feb 22, 6:19 AM EST, 12 hours 47 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-221300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 619 AM EST SAT FEB 22 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE SEVERE...ESPECIALLY LATE THIS MORNING INTO THIS AFTERNOON. HEAVY RAINFALL COULD ALSO PRODUCE ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING. WINDS WILL REMAIN STRONG AFTER THE PRECIPIATION ENDS TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS. FOR MORE INFORMATION...SEE CAESPSGSP. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED BY EARLY AFTERNOON... ESPECIALLY ALONG THE I-85 CORRIDOR. LANE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 22, 5:12 PM EST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
GAZ010-017-NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-SCZ001>003-230015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 512 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003 SCATTERED...STRONG...THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS...AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA...THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THE STORMS WILL RACE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 50 MPH. HAIL UP TO A HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...AND WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 7:11 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 3 hr |
| Feb 22, 8:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.