Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2003, 2:54 PM EDT for Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 96 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 15, 2003, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2003, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 96 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 18:57 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, 6.9 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
- 268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 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 151859 FFWGSP NCC027-152030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 254 PM EDT SUN JUN 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CALDWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 254 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SERIES OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING RAINFALL AT RATES UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR OVER NORTHEAST CALDWELL COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH...WITH NEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING JUST TO THE WEST. * AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE EAST OF THE AREA. MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE FLOODING ARE THE BUFFALO CREEK AND KINGS CREEK AREA. ROADS THAT MAY BE AFFECT ARE ROUTE 268 AND 18. 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. $$ HG
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 15, 10:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 10:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1000 AM EDT SUN JUN 15 2003 CURRENTLY A LARGE BATCH OF RAIN IS DRIFTING OVER EASTERN KY AND WV...MOVING NE. UPPER ANALYSIS SHOWS VERY LITTLE IN THE WAY OF WIND FIELDS...IN FACT...WIND DIRECTIONS ARE PARALLEL TO THE FRONT. HOWEVER...THE GFS...RUC...AND ETA ARE SHOWING THE FRONT SLIPPING SOUTH AND GENERATING QPF ALONG THE NORTHERN TIER OF THE FA THIS AFTERNOON. WITH TROPICAL AIR IN PLACE AND CAPES AGAIN RUNNING >1500 J/KG ATMOSPHERE WILL EASILY SUPPORT SH/TS. WITH PWS CALCULATED TO BE OVER 1.8 @ GSO AND WITH STM MOTION AROUND 11KTS...HEAVY RAIN WILL AGAIN POSE A CONCERN. WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS TO THE NORTH WHERE COVERAGE WILL BE BEST AS S/W ARE EVIDENT IN THE WV AND POSSIBLE PRESSING FRONT. WILL DROP POPS BACK TO HIGH CHC OVER THE WESTERN TIP OF NC AD WILL MAKE SOME PRECIP TIMING CHANGES. WILL ONLY MAKE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE T/TD GRID AND WILL USE LATEST WIND DATA. FCSTID = 16 GSP 85 68 82 67 / 40 40 40 60 AND 86 69 81 68 / 40 40 40 60 CLT 85 68 82 66 / 40 50 60 60 HKY 81 67 77 62 / 60 60 60 60 AVL 80 64 79 63 / 60 60 50 60 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. NED
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 6:00 AM EDT, 8 hours 54 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-151145- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 600 AM EDT SUN JUN 15 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA REMAINS VERY MOIST...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE. A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH MAY DEVELOP IN FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON. IF THIS HAPPENS...THE THREAT OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL INCREASE. OUR OFFICE WILL ISSUE A SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK CAESPSGSP LATER TODAY IF IT APPEARS THAT THIS HEAVY RAIN THREAT WILL DEVELOP. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH...CROSSING THE REGION MONDAY AND TUESDAY. AS THE FRONT INTERACTS WITH A VERY MOIST ATMOSPHERE... NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE REGION MONDAY AND TUESDAY. LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE FRONT. SEE OUR PRODUCT CAEESFGSP FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. SOME OF THE STORMS...PARTICULARLY ON WEDNESDAY...MAY BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY. MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 41 min |
| Jun 15, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 4:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 50 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North 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.