Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 2003, 8:00 AM EDT for Buncombe County, Madison County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 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
- May 6, 2003, 8:00 AM EDT (12:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Buncombe County, NC, Madison County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:59 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 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 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 061200 FFWGSP NCC021-115-061600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 800 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BUNCOMBE COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL NOON EDT * AT 755 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE BEGINNING TO REPEAT OVER THE SAME AREAS IN BUNCOMBE AND MADISON COUNTIES. * FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS MORNING ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND IN URBAN AREAS. 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. WHEN DRIVING ALONG ROADS WHERE THE TERRAIN IS STEEP OR ROCKY...REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ROCK OR MUD SLIDES DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN. $$ JONES
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 May 6, 5:58 AM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 5:58 AM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
558 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 2003
S AND SE CWA HAS STABILIZED SINCE EARLIER THIS MORNING. STRONG TSTMS
HAVE MOVED E AND HAVE NOT REDEVELOPED. WILL UPDATE FORECAST TO
REMOVE TORNADO WATCH.
.GSP...
GA...FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY FOR ZONES GAZ010...GAZ017>018...GAZ026...
GAZ028>029.
NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY FOR ZONES NCZ033>037...NCZ048>059...
NCZ062>072...NCZ082.
SC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY FOR ZONES SCZ001>014...SCZ019.
RBHazardous weather outlook, May 6, 4:40 AM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-061100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 440 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY...SOME WITH TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SOME MAY BECOME SEVERE...ESPECIALLY LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY TODAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 6, 4:03 AM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-061500- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 403 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 2003 ...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE AGAIN TODAY ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...PARTICULARLY IN AREAS SOUTH OF I-85. TODAY...A WARM FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT SLOWLY NORTH ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THIS WILL ALLOW WARMER AND MORE MOIST AIR TO SPREAD OVER THE REGION...RESULTING IN A GRADUAL DESTABILIZATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. A SERIES OF WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY... WHICH WILL RESULT IN CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE AFTERNOON. WITH AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE...SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS...AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL IN ADDITION TO DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING IS ALREADY OCCURRING ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE AREA THIS MORNING...AND WITH PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY THIS WILL REMAIN A CONCERN. A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR TODAY FOR ALL OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE AT JUST ABOUT ANYTIME TODAY. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION. LANE
Special weather statement, May 6, 6:13 AM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
NCZ082-SCZ011>014-019-061045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 613 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 2003 TORNADO WATCH #261 THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR ABBEVILLE...GREENWOOD... LAURENS...UNION...AND CHESTER COUNTIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA...AND FOR UNION COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA HAS BEEN CANCELED. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR THE TIME BEING...BUT THERE WILL BE ANOTHER CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATER TODAY. LANE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 10:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Macon | 50 min |
| May 5, 11:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson | 41 min |
| May 6, 6:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain | 4 hr |
| May 6, 10:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain | 118 min |
| May 6, 12:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon and 3 more | 4 hr |
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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.