Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Feb 27, 2003, 1:54 PM EST for Chester 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
- Feb 27, 2003, 1:54 PM EST (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2003, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chester County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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 192 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
- 466 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 344 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 271855 FFWGSP SCC023-272145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 154 PM EST THU FEB 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CHESTER COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 445 PM EST * AT 105 PM EST...THE CHESTER COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER REPORTED THAT MANY CREEKS IN THE COUNTY HAVE EXCEEDED BANKFULL. SOME OF THESE CREEKS INCLUDE...TANYARD BRANCH CREEK...DRY CREEK...AND GRASSY RUN BRANCH. * A BROAD BAND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN HAS CROSSED OVER THE COUNTY PRODUCING SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL. SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. RUNOFF AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ADD TO THE 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. $$ NED/PT
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 Feb 27, 11:45 AM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 11:45 AM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1145 AM EST THU FEB 27 2003 BUSY MORNING WITH BOTH ICING AND FLOODING CONCERNS. AS FOR THE ICE...HAVE CANCELLED THE ADVISORY ACROSS THE FRENCH BROAD VALLEY...THE SRN NC FOOTHILLS...THE UPSTATE AND UNION CO SC. WL DOWNGRADE THE WARNING TO AN ADVISORY OVER MCDOWELL CO. WL KEEP THE WARNING IN PLACE ELSEWHERE AS ICING IS STILL BEING REPORTED MOST AREAS N OF I-40. THUS FAR...ONLY DAVIE COUNTY HAS REALLY HAD ICE STORM TYPE OF CONDITIONS W/A THICK GLAZE OF ICE AND TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN. HOWEVER...POCKETS OF DAMAGE ARE STILL POSSIBLE IN THE WARNING AREA AS RAIN IS STILL FALLING. AS WINDS INCREASE LATER TDA AS SFC LOW DEEPENS OFF THE COAST...EXPECT INCREASING REPORTS OF TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN THIS AREA. MORNING HAND ANALYSIS SHOWED STRONG H5 AND H3 UPPER DIFFLUENCE SPREADING INTO THE CWA FROM THE WEST (H5 WINDS AT ABOUT A 45 DEG ANGLE BETWEEN FFC AND BNA). THIS AS RESULTED IN STRENGTHENING LLVL FLOW AND DEEP OMEGA...AS IS EVIDENCED BY IMPRESSIVE UPGLIDE ON THE ETA I295 SFC THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING RIGHT ALONG THE I85 CORRIDOR. STRONG LLVL ASCENT HAS RESULTED IN A NICE FRONTAL RAINBAND ACROSS THE UPSTATE AND NE GA. FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN LAURENS COUNTY. SINCE THE ETA/S STRONGEST LLVL CONVERGENCE HAS NOT EVEN BEEN REALIZED YET...HAVE HOISTED FFA FOR THE UPSTATE NE GA...AND THE FAR SRN NC PIEDMONT...INCLUDING CHARLOTTE FOR THIS AFTN THROUGH MIDNIGHT. FCSTID = 14 GSP 35 36 53 35 / 100 40 10 10 AND 37 38 55 36 / 100 30 10 10 CLT 33 35 52 34 / 100 30 10 10 HKY 31 32 49 32 / 100 50 10 10 AVL 34 34 48 30 / 100 50 10 10 .GSP... GA...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR ZONES GAZ010...GAZ017>018...GAZ026...GAZ028>029. NC...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR THIS AFTN FOR ZONES NCZ034>037...NCZ055>057. FLOOD WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ071...NCZ082. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THIS AFTN FOR ZONES NCZ033...NCZ049>050...NCZ054. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THIS AFTN FOR ZONES NCZ068>072. SC...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR ZONES SCZ001>014...SCZ019. MCAVOY
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 27, 4:50 AM EST, 9 hours 4 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-271200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 450 AM EST THU FEB 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY FREEZING RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER THE NORTH CAROLINA NORTHERN FOOTHILLS AND NORTHWEST PIEDMONT WHERE 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH ICE ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE. THERE IS A CHANCE OF FREEZING RAIN OVER THE NORTH AND EASTERN MOUNTAINS AND THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA...PLUS THE NORTHEAST COUNTIES OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA FROM GREENVILLE TO YORK COUNTIES. ACCUMULATIONS IN THESE OTHER AREAS IS EXPECTED TO BE BELOW 1/4 INCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. RB
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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.