Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2003, 11:30 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; York 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
- Jun 7, 2003, 11:30 PM EDT (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2003, 2:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mecklenburg County, NC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 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 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 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 080331 FFWGSP NCC119-SCC091-080630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1130 PM EDT SAT JUN 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA NORTHERN YORK COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 230 AM EDT * AT 1125 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY...SOUTH AND WEST ACROSS MOST OF NORTHERN YORK COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES WERE NOT AS HIGH AS EARLIER IN THE EVENING...BUT WERE MORE THAN AMPLE TO CONTINUE ONGOING FLOODING...OR PERHAPS RESULT IN ADDITIONAL FLOODING. CHARLOTTE...ESPECIALLY DOWNTOWN AND SOUTHSIDE...WERE EXTREMELY HARD HIT BY MORE THAN 3 INCHES OF RAIN. MANY ROADS REMAINED IMPASSABLE...AND ADDITIONAL EVACUATIONS OF LOW LYING AREAS NEAR SUGAR CREEK IN THE VICINITY OF INDEPENDENCE BOULEVARD WERE ONGOING. FLOODING COULD DEVELOP TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF CHARLOTTE...FROM MATTHEWS TO PINEVILLE...AS HEAVY RAIN SHIFTS SLOWLY SOUTH AND EAST. FLOODING ALSO CONTINUES IN YORK COUNTY...ESPECIALLY IN THE VICINITY OF CLOVER. A CREEK HAD COME OUT OF ITS BANKS NEAR CLOVER...AND WAS FLOODING PART OF GREENLEAF ROAD. WEAK-ROOTED TREES HAD ALSO BEEN REPORTED DOWN IN THIS AREA AS THE HEAVIEST DOWNPOURS MOVED THROUGH THE REGION. ALSO...FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS ALONG HIGHWAYS 557...5 AND 49...AFFECTING PARTS OF HAMMOND CHURCH AND RHEMA CHURCH ROADS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. $$
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, 5 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 6:16 PM EDT, 5 hours 14 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, 17 hours 37 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 11:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 23 min |
| Jun 8, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Mitchell | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell, Rutherford | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 41 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 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.