Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2003, 3:25 PM EDT for Haywood County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 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
- Jul 9, 2003, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2003, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Haywood County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 280 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
- 195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1170 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 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 091928 FFWGSP NCC087-092130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 325 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HAYWOOD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 325 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN HAYWOOD COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED TWO TO TWO AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN IN THE PAST HOUR. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY IN THIS AREA. * AREAS NEAR WATERVILLE LAKE...AND ALONG UPSTREAM TRIBUTARIES OF THE PIGEON RIVER...COULD EXPERIENCE RAPID RISES IN WATER LEVELS. TRAVELERS ON INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN COVE CREEK AND WATERVILLE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON THE ROADWAY. 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. $$ JRL/HG
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KGSP 092047 FFSGSP NCC087-092130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 446 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN HAYWOOD COUNTY... SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS HAVE REPEATEDLY TRACKED OVER NORTHERN HAYWOOD COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATES THAT SINCE 230 PM...TWO AND A HALF TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS ACCUMULATED BETWEEN COVE CREEK TO THE TENNESSEE LINE. THROUGH 515 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY...RESULTING IN AN ADDITIONAL HALF INCH TO INCH OF RAINFALL. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY PUSH AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS ABOVE BANKFULL. SOME CREEK BASINS THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED THE GREATEST RAINFALL ARE WILKINS...MARTIN...AND SPRING CREEKS. DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER. WHEN DRIVING ALONG ROADS WHERE THE TERRAIN IS STEEP OR ROCKY...REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ROCK OR MUD SLIDES DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN. $$ NED
000 WGUS72 KGSP 092132 FFSGSP NCC087-092145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 530 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN HAYWOOD COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AS OF 530 PM EDT... SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHERN HAYWOOD COUNTY THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...RAINFALL WILL DECREASE IN INTENSITY AND THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER EASTERN TENNESSEE...IF THIS ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO CROSS INTO NORTHERN HAYWOOD COUNTY ANOTHER FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED. DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER. $$ NED
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 Jul 9, 10:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 10:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1030 AM EDT WED JUL 9 2003 SCATTERED CONVECTION HAS BROKEN OUT IN NE TN AHEAD OF WEAK SHORTWAVE PASSING MAINLY TO THE NORTH OF THE AREA. WESTERLY UPSLOPE FLOW HAS AIDED COVERAGE OF TSRA NEAR THE TN BORDER...AND WRN MTN LOCATIONS SHOULD CONT TO SEE HIGHEST CHCS THROUGH THE AFTN. MODEL SOUNDINGS SUGGEST CAPES NEAR 3000 AT MAX HEATING THIS AFTERNOON...BUT HIGH WET BULB ZERO VALUES AND LACK OF SIGNIFICANT TRIGGER ACROSS THE CWA SHOULD KEEP COVERAGE AND SEVERE THREAT DOWN THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. 850 MB TEMPS SHOULD BE NEAR 19 DEGREE C THIS AFTERNOON. THIS AND MOS GUIDANCE SUGGEST ANOTHER LOWER 90S DAY IN MOST FOOTHILL AND PIEDMONT LOCATIONS. WILL ADD SLIGHTLY MORE LAPSE IN TEMPS TO THE HIGHER TERRAIN MAXES TO REDUCE VALUES MORE TOWARD YESTERDAY NUMBERS AT PLACES LIKE MOUNT MITCHELL AND BEECH MTN. FCSTID = 33 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. HG
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 6:27 AM EDT, 8 hours 58 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-091230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 627 AM EDT WED JUL 9 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL ONCE AGAIN REACH INTO THE UPPER 90S ACROSS THE PIEDMONT WITH ONLY SMALL CHANCES OF LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A DAILY CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS STILL FORECAST FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 42 min |
| Jul 9, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Mitchell, Yancey | 42 min |
| Jul 9, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell, McDowell | 57 min |
| Jul 9, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Jul 9, 7:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Madison | 117 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.