Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2003, 7:18 PM EDT for Lincoln 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
- Jun 7, 2003, 7:18 PM EDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2003, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 348 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 470 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KGSP 072320 FFWGSP NCC109-080215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 718 PM EDT SAT JUN 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LINCOLN COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1015 PM EDT * AT 715 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER LINCOLN COUNTY. THE AREA OF RAIN WAS DRIFTING ONLY SLOWLY EASTWARD. ANOTHER INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BEFORE RAIN ENDS FOR GOOD. * COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT A TRIBUTARY OF THE SOUTH FORK CATAWBA RIVER WAS OUT OF ITS BANKS ALONG BATTLECREEK ROAD. THE CREEK WAS BLOCKING TRAVEL ALONG THE ROAD...AND HAD SURGED INTO THE BASEMENT OF SEVERAL HOMES WITHIN THE LINCOLNTON CITY LIMITS. OFFICIALS ALSO REPORT MANY OTHER STREAMS NEAR BANKFULL WITHIN THE COUNTY...AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL THIS EVENING COULD PRODUCE OTHER FLOOD PROBLEMS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. IF YOU ENCOUNTER STANDING WATER...STOP TURN AROUND AND FIND ANOTHER ROUTE TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION SAFELY. 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. $$ BURRUS
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KGSP 080057 FFSGSP NCC109-080215- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 857 PM EDT SAT JUN 7 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 855 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED RAINFALL HAD ENDED IN LINCOLN COUNTY...WITH NO RAIN IMMEDIATELY UPSTREAM. ALTHOUGH ADDITIONAL SHOWERS...OR MAYBE EVEN A THUNDERSTORM COULD DEVELOP OVERNIGHT...THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE HEAVY ENOUGH TO EXACERBATE OR PROLONG ONGOING FLOODING. COUNTY OFFICIALS HAD NO ADDITIONAL REPORTS OF FLOODING. EARLIER...A TRIBUTARY OF SOUTH FORK CATAWBA RIVER CAME OUT OF ITS BANKS...CLOSING BATTLECREEK ROAD AND INUNDATING BASEMENTS OF SEVERAL HOMES ALONG THE CREEK. NOW THAT RAIN HAS ENDED...WATER LEVELS SHOULD DROP OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT BUT COULD BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT ITS DESIGNATED TIME IF NO OTHER FLOOD PROBLEMS DEVELOP. DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER. $$ BURRUS
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 Jun 7, 6:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 6:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 616 PM EDT SAT JUN 7 2003 TSRA FIRING IN AXIS OF 1000-1500 SB CAPES. WHILE SHEAR DOES WEAKEN THE NEXT COUPLE HRS...WITH HIGH PW/S AND SEMI-ORGANIZED NATURE OF THE LINE...THE PATH OF LEAST REGRET IS TO EXTEND THE FFA A FEW HOURS ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE LINE. .GSP... GA...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 10 PM FOR ZONES GAZ018...GAZ026...GAZ028>029. NC...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 10 PM FOR ZONES NCZ035>037...NCZ056>057...NCZ068>072...NCZ082. SC...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 10 PM FOR ZONES SCZ004>014...SCZ019. MCAVOY
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 5:53 AM EDT, 13 hours 25 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-071200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 553 AM EDT SAT JUN 7 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY ANOTHER ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED BY THE EARLY PART OF THE AFTERNOON. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED BY OVERNIGHT RAIN... THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING OF CREEKS...STREAMS...AND URBAN AREAS. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY. SEE THE FLOOD WATCH (FFAGSP) ISSUED AT 351 AM FOR MORE DETAILS. A FLOOD WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTH FORK CATAWBA RIVER AT LOWELL NORTH CAROLINA. FOR MORE DETAILS...SEE THE RIVER FLOOD WARNING (FLWGSP) ISSUED AT 315 PM FRIDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE MOUNTAINS SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA AGAIN ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. MOORE
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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.