Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 129, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 2003, 5:31 PM EDT for Jackson 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2003, 5:31 PM EDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2003, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jackson County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 915 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 262130 FFWGSP NCC099-270030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 531 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 525 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN JUST NORTHEAST OF SYLVA IN NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY...ALONG HIGHWAY 74 AND 23. * SCOTT CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES ARE EXPECTED TO RISE OUT OF THEIR BANKS. THE COMMUNITIES OF FISHER CREEK...FOSTER...AND WILLITS WILL BE MOST PRONE TO FLOODING. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. WHEN DRIVING ALONG ROADS WHERE THE TERRAIN IS STEEP OR ROCKY...REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ROCK OR MUD SLIDES DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN. LAT...LON 3553 8313 3527 8294 3520 8327 3544 8339 $$ 07
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KGSP 262208 FFSGSP NCC099-270000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 608 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR JACKSON COUNTY... A LARGE AND SLOWLY MOVING THUNDERSTORM THAT PRODUCED EXCESSIVE RAINFALL IN NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY WAS WEAKENING RAPIDLY AT 605 PM. THE RAIN INTENSITY HAD LESSENED SIGNIFICANTLY... BUT LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN PERSISTED... ESPECIALLY JUST TO THE NORTHWEST OF SYLVA. BETWEEN 520 AND 600 PM... VERY HEAVY RAIN FELL ON THE PLOTT BALSAMS NORTHEAST OF SYLVA. NUMEROUS SMALL STREAMS FEEDING INTO SCOTT CREEK ON THE SOUTH SLOPES OF THE PLOTT BALSAMS PRODUCED THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING ALONG HIGHWAY 74 AND 23 NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF WILLITS... ADDIE... FOSTER... AND BETA AS WELL AS IN THE TOWN OF SYLVA. AS OF 605 PM... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAD RECEIVED NO REPORTS OF FLOODING. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL THE THREAT OF HIGH WATER LEVELS IN CREEKS... STREAMS... AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS HAS ENDED. DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER. $$ LGL
000 WGUS72 KGSP 262302 FFSGSP NCC099-262315- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 702 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED... HEAVY RAINFALL ENDED OVER THE NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY AROUND 600 PM. NO FLOODING HAS OCCURRED IN THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS ISSUED EARLIER HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ 07
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 Aug 26, 3:12 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 3:12 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 312 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003 ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED OVER SOME OF THE HIGHER TERRAIN IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THESE SHOULD BE SHORT-LIVED BUT HAVE INCLUDED LOW CHANCE POPS INTO THE EVENING TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS PRECIPITATION. OTHERWISE... SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE AND RIDGE ALOFT WILL CONTINUE GENERALLY DRY AND VERY WARM WEATHER FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. GUIDANCE SHOWS MID-LEVEL TEMPERATURES LOWER A DEGREE OR TWO THROUGH THURSDAY THUS WEAKENING SOMEWHAT THE CAPPING TENDENCY OF THE CURRENT AIRMASS. ALSO... LOW AND MID-LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BE INCREASING A BIT. EVEN THOUGH MAIN FRONT WILL REMAIN TO OUR NORTH THROUGH FRIDAY... WILL ADD LOW CHANCE POPS PRIMARILY TO MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... SURFACE FRONT APPROACHES MOUNTAINS THEN BECOMES NEARLY STATIONARY IN A NORTHEAST/SOUTHWEST ORIENTATION BY MONDAY AND TUESDAY. DIURNAL FORCING FOR CONVECTION WILL GIVE WAY TO CHANCE OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS AT ANY TIME OF DAY. LOWERING THICKNESSES AND MORE CLOUDINESS WILL RESULT IN DAYTIME TEMPERATURES CLOSER TO NORMAL. FCSTID = 6 GSP 71 92 71 89 / 10 10 10 20 AND 72 92 72 89 / 10 10 10 20 CLT 71 93 71 90 / 10 10 10 10 HKY 69 91 69 88 / 10 10 10 20 AVL 67 88 67 85 / 20 10 10 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. LGL/RWH
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 26, 5:55 AM EDT, 11 hours 36 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-261200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 555 AM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED NEXT WEEKEND AND LABOR DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. MCAVOY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 4:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ034>037-054>057-066>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-270130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 405 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003 ...HOT WEATHER WILL CONTINUE WEDNESDAY... THE HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN DOMINATING THE WEATHER ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 90S TOMORROW WILL COMBINE WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES IN THE 55 TO 65 PERCENT RANGE TO PRODUCE UNCOMFORTABLE HEAT INDICES. THE AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX ACROSS THE PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA WILL INCH ABOVE THE 100 MARK AT SOME LOCATIONS. WARM AND HUMID WEATHER WILL PERSIST INTO THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND... BUT MORE CLOUDINESS AND SCATTERED SHOWERS BY SATURDAY WILL RESULT IN HIGH TEMPERATURES CLOSER TO THE NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. LGL
Local storm report, Aug 26, 5:16 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
516 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
510 PM WAYNESVILLE NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
08/26/03 HAYWOOD TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
MIX OF PENNY AND QUARTER
SIZED HAIL.
LAMB
NWUS52 KGSP 262117
LSRGSP
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
516 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
510 PM WAYNESVILLE NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
08/26/03 HAYWOOD TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
MIX OF PENNY AND QUARTER
SIZED HAIL.
LAMBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood | 42 min |
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.