Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 58, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2003, 2:16 PM EDT for Avery County, Burke County, Caldwell 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 30, 2003, 2:16 PM EDT (18:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Avery County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1204 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 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 301822 FFWGSP NCC011-023-027-302115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 216 PM EDT MON JUN 30 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN AVERY COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA NORTHERN CALDWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA NORTHWESTERN BURKE COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 202 PM...AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGES REPORTED OVER ONE INCH OF RAIN PER HOUR FALLING BETWEEN JONAS RIDGE AND BAILEY CAMP. * FLOODING WILL LIKELY DEVELOP NEAR LINVILLE...NORTH HARPER CREEK...AND AROUND THE PISGAH NATIONAL FOREST. MORTIMER CAMPGROUND...ALONG WILSON CREEK...COULD EXPERIENCE FLOODING. HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE ROADS TO FLOOD...ESPECIALLY IN AND AROUND THE OUTWARD BOUND CAMP AND ALONG HIGHWAY 181. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. EVEN MODERN SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES CANNOT BE SAFELY DRIVEN THROUGH FLOOD WATERS. $$ LAMB/PT
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KGSP 302107 FFSGSP NCC011-023-027-302130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 501 PM EDT MON JUN 30 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN AVERY...NORTHERN CALDWELL AND NORTHWEST BURKE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 515 PM EDT... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES THAT NEARLY TWO AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER A FAIRLY WIDESPREAD AREA...BUT NO FLOODING WAS REPORTED. A FEW ROADWAYS MAY BE COVERED WITH LINGERING WATER. MOTORISTS ARE REMINDED TO AVOID DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. $$ 55
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 30, 1:35 PM EDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 1:35 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 135 PM EDT MON JUN 30 2003 THE BIG ISSUE THIS WEEK WILL OF COURSE BE THE TRACK OF T.S. BILL AS IT TRANSLATES THROUGH THE AREA. SHOWERS AND TSTMS ARE LIKELY TUE...BUT WED SEEMS TO BE THE KEY TIMEFRAME FOR HEAVIEST RAINFALL POTENTIAL. THIS MAY NEED TO BE ADJUSTED DEPENDING ON THE EXACT TRACK OF BILL SINCE EACH MODEL RUN TAKES THE REMNANTS OF THE T.S. SLIGHTLY FURTHER N. IN ANY CASE THE FORECAST AREA WILL BE IN A SIGNIFICANT UPSLOPE REGION WITH DEEP MOISTURE AS IT MOVES THRU. ANYWHERE FROM 3 TO 5 INCHES RAIN IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS. MDLS PAINT A SIGNIFICANT BULLSEYE OF UVV AND QPF OVER NE GA AND W CAROLINAS ON WED AS WELL. ESF WILL BE UPDATED TO HIGHLIGHT POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING LATE TUE INTO THU. CURRENT THINKING IS FOR SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTN-EVE CONVECTION TO CONTINUE FRI...THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO MON. FCSTID = 77 GSP 68 83 70 81 / 40 60 60 70 AND 69 84 70 82 / 40 60 60 70 CLT 69 83 70 82 / 40 60 60 70 HKY 67 82 69 80 / 40 60 60 70 AVL 63 79 65 76 / 40 60 60 70 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RB
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 6:03 AM EDT, 8 hours 13 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-301200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 603 AM EDT MON JUN 30 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TODAY ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THIS AFTERNOON...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... TROPICAL STORM BILL WILL MAKE LANDFALL TODAY ALONG THE LOUISIANA GULF COAST AND MOVE NORTHEAST TOWARD THE TENNESSEE RIVER VALLEY BY LATE TUESDAY. THE REMNANTS OF BILL COULD THEN MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS AND BRING ABUNDANT TROPICAL RAINFALL TO THE REGION. THE POTENTIAL FOR ASSOCIATED FLOODING IS ADDRESSED IN THE FLOOD POTENTIAL OUTLOOK...ESFGSP...ISSUED THIS MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TUESDAY. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE STRONGLY URGED TO MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF TROPICAL STORM BILL THIS WEEK. HG
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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.