Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Apr 21, 2003, 5:57 PM EDT for Elbert County, Georgia; Abbeville County, South 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
- Apr 21, 2003, 5:57 PM EDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2003, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Elbert County, GA, Abbeville County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KGSP 212202 FFWGSP GAC105-SCC001-220100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 557 PM EDT MON APR 21 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ELBERT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ABBEVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 550 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN EAST-WEST ORIENTED LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WEST OF GREENWOOD ALL THE WAY BACK TO NEAR COMMERCE GEORGIA. STORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH ACROSS THE WARNED COUNTIES THIS EVENING. * DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF LOCALIZED 3 INCH AMOUNTS HAVE FALLEN WITHIN AN AREA FROM AROUND LOWNDESVILLE WEST TO NEAR BOWMAN. AN ADDITIONAL INCH OR TWO OF RAIN IS LIKELY ACROSS THIS AREA AS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE IN FROM THE WEST. 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. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. EVEN MODERN SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES CANNOT BE SAFELY DRIVEN THROUGH FLOOD WATERS. $$
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 Apr 21, 3:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 3:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 304 PM EDT MON APR 21 2003 LEADING AREA OF SHRA AND EMBEDDED TSRA MOVING OVER UPSTATE AND NC PIEDMONT ATTM. ATMOS BECOMING MORE UNSTABLE OVER MTNS AND SRN SECTIONS OF CWFA. SPC HAS OUTLOOKED NC MTNS FOR CONTINUED POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED SVR LATE THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE FROPA. WILL LEAVE CHC POP THERE AND GO LIKELY POP EARLY GA/SC AND NC PIEDMONT. LOWS TONIGHT WARMER ERN SECTIONS. AFTER SOME WRAP AROUND CLOUDS AND POSSIBLY A SPRINKLE OR TWO NRN MTNS EARLY TUE...TRANQUIL WX PATTERN SETS UP THRU WED NITE. DRY HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE AREA. HIGHS NEAR OR JUST BELOW NORMAL WITH BELOW NORMAL LOWS. IN FACT...WILL NEED TO WATCH FOR FROST NC MTNS WED NITE. LIKELY TOO MUCH WIND TUE NITE...BUT WILL NEED TO KEEP IN MIND. MOISTURE RETURNS THU AHEAD OF THE NEXT WX SYSTEM THAT MOVES THRU THE AREA SATURDAY. MDLS HINTING AT POSSIBLE PRECIP LATE THU/THU NITE. THIS IS FASTER THAN PREVIOUS RUNS. WILL FOLLOW HPC LEAD LEAVE DRY FOR NOW...CONFINING POPS TO FRI/SAT. COOL TEMPS DURING THE PRECIP THEN WARMING TREND SUN/MON. FCSTID = 81 GSP 52 72 43 71 / 40 0 0 0 AND 52 72 45 72 / 40 0 0 0 CLT 54 72 45 71 / 60 0 0 0 HKY 52 69 43 69 / 30 0 0 0 AVL 48 66 39 67 / 30 10 0 0 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RWH
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 21, 5:54 AM EDT, 12 hours 3 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-211200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 554 AM EDT MON APR 21 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AREAS OF DENSE FOG WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE MID MORNING ACROSS THE AREA TO THE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CARNESVILLE TO HARTWELL... ANDERSON...AND CLINTON. A DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM. FOR MORE INFORMATION...SEE THE NPWGSP PRODUCT ISSUED AT 343 AM. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION TODAY AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY TO THE NORTH OF A LINE FROM TAYLORSVILLE TO STATESVILLE AND SALISBURY...BUT A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE REGION. FOR MORE DETAILS...SEE THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK (SPSGSP) ISSUED AT 430 AM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. MOORE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert | 40 min |
| Apr 21, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert | 41 min |
| Apr 21, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 45 min |
| Apr 21, 6:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 40 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2003Flash Flood Warnings in South 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.