Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2003, 6:22 PM EDT for Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 113 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
- Jun 14, 2003, 6:22 PM EDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2003, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Caldwell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 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 142228 FFWGSP NCC027-150015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 622 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CALDWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 616 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS PAST THROUGH THE AREA. REPORTS FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT INDICATED THAT THERE WAS FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS ALONG LOWER CREEK IN AND AROUND LENIOR AND ALONG PARTS OF HIGHWAY 321A. * THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...HOWEVER THERE WILL STILL BE RUNOFF OF THE RAINFALL WHICH WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. EVEN MODERN SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES CANNOT BE SAFELY DRIVEN THROUGH FLOOD WATERS. $$ PAT
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 14, 3:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 240 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 2003 REGIONAL RADAR SHOWS A LARGE BOW ECHO OVER EAST GA AND W SC MOVING EAST AND REMAINING MAINLY SOUTH OF THE FA. FURTHER UPSTREAM...IS ANOTHER LINE OF CONVECTION OVER AL...COLD POOL DEVELOPING NW OF THE LINE SO ACTIVITY SHOULD TRAVEL SE. WILL ADD LIKELY POP TO THE SOUTHERN ZONES AS NORTHERN SECTION OF THE BOW WILL CROSS OVER...ELSEWHERE...WILL USE HIGH CHC. OTHERWISE...SCATTERED DIURNAL CONVECTION WILL REMAIN OVER NE GA AND THE WESTERN CAROLINAS FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THE SH/TS ARE TRAINING...AND MAY RESULT IN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL...WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED. WILL FOLLOW THE TREND OF THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS AS SH/TS HAVE ASHED OUT AROUND MIDNIGHT...LEAVING JUST SCT SH AND ISO TS. TROPICAL AIR MASS WILL REMAIN FOR SUN AS FRONT SLOWLY SLIDES SOUTH. WILL AGAIN SEE CAPES AT THE 1500 J/KG LEVEL WITH K-INDEX IN THE MID 30S. EXPECT COVERAGE TO GREATER OVER THE NC FT. HILLS AND PIEDMONT WITH THE APPROACH OF THE FRONT AND SMALL S/W...WILL GO LIKELY NE WITH HIGH CHC TO THE SW. SUNDAY NIGHT FRONT WILL BE PUSHED FURTHER SOUTH AS HIGH MOVES OVER NEW ENGLAND AND WILL MARK THE BEGINNING OF A WEAK CAD EVENT. HAVE KEPT TEMPS LOWER THAN MOS FOR MON AND WILL CONTINUE CHC POPS. AS CAD TAKE BETTER ROOT MONDAY NIGHT WILL CUT OFF TS AND WORK AS SH. MAINLY FOLLOWED 00 & 06Z GFS FOR DETAILS IN THE EXTENDED. PERIOD STARTS WITH LATE SEASON WEDGE IN PLACE AND WILL REMAIN UNTIL MID-WEEK. WILL LEAVE POPS IN THE CHC RANGE FOR -SHRA. BY WED AFTERNOON...WEDGE STARTS TO ERODE AND WILL INTRODUCE ISO TS ALONG THE SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY AND THE FAR WESTERN TIP OF NC. THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...A COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH LOW OVER SRN CANADA/NEW ENGLAND WILL SLIDE THROUGH THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NE GA. BY SATURDAY...AN AIR MASS CHANGE WILL OCCUR AND WILL FORECAST A DRY DAY AFTER SUNRISE. FCSTID = 16 GSP 068 085 068 084 / 5555 AND 068 087 069 084 / 5555 CLT 068 086 068 082 / 5665 HKY 067 083 067 077 / 5665 AVL 063 080 064 077 / 5555 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. NED
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 6:24 AM EDT, 11 hours 58 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-141230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 624 AM EDT SAT JUN 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TODAY...AND COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AT SOME LOCATIONS. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TODAY...BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO BE ISOLATED AT BEST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY FOR MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA AGAIN SUNDAY. THE CHANCE OF SHOWERS WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH MIDWEEK...WITH THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING MORE COMMON TOWARD THE END OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON. BURRUS
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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.