Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 2003, 10:02 AM EDT for 5 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 118 min. 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, 10:02 AM EDT (14:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Swain County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:01 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KGSP 061405 FFWGSP NCC075-087-099-113-173-061600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1002 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS CONTINUED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HAYWOOD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SWAIN COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA GRAHAM COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA JACKSON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL NOON EDT * AT 950 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE RAIN COVERING MUCH OF THE WARNING AREA. A BAND OF HEAVY RAIN WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 10 AND 11 AM...EXACERBATING THE FLOODING SITUATION. * COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTERS REPORT SEVERAL STREAMS ARE OUT OF THEIR BANKS IN THE SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS. AS RAINFALL RATES INCREASE... THE FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BECOME WORSE AND THE DANGER OF FLASH FLOODING...MUDSLIDES...AND ROCKSLIDES...WILL INCREASE QUICKLY LATE THIS MORNING. FOR SOME AREAS...THIS WILL BECOME A VERY SERIOUS AND LIFE THREATENING FLASH FLOOD SITUATION. 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. $$ MCAVOY
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, 8:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Madison | 4 hr |
| May 6, 12:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon and 3 more | 4 hr |
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.