Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2003, 7:47 PM EDT for Oconee 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
- Jul 9, 2003, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2003, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oconee County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 203 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 092348 FFWGSP SCC073-100245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 747 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN OCONEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1045 PM EDT * AT 745 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FALLING OVER EXTREME NORTHERN OCONEE COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ALONG STATE ROUTES 130 AND 107...JUST SOUTHEAST OF THE WALHALLA FISH HATCHERY. AS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY OVER THIS AREA...AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE. * FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO QUICKLY DEVELOP WITHIN THE TOXAWAY RIVER BASIN WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN. CAMPERS AND HIKERS ALONG CREEKS IN THIS AREA SHOULD HEAD TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. IN ADDITION...ROCK AND MUD SLIDES WILL BE LIKELY. 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. $$ NED/MCAVOY
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KGSP 100056 FFSGSP SCC073-100245- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 855 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1045 PM EDT FOR OCONEE COUNTY... AT 850 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE HEAVY RAIN FALLING ACROSS XTREME NORTHERN OCONEE COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT IN EXCESS OF 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THIS AREA. WHILE NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE YET BEEN RECEIVED...IT ALMOST CERTAIN THAT FLOODING WILL DEVELOP ALONG PARTS OF HOWARD CREEK AND LUMBERPOLE CREEK...JUST WEST OF LAKE JOCASSEE. MUD AND ROCK SLIDES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ALONG MOST ROADS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY BETWEEN LAKE JOCASSEE AND THE WALHALLA FISH HATCHERY. CAMPERS ALONG STREAMS IN THIS AREA SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER. $$ MCAVOY
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, 6:57 PM EDT, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 6:57 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 657 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2003 UPDATED ZONES TO RAISE POPS ALONG AND AHEAD OF MCS IN THE NC PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS. TWEAKS TO THE GRIDS...BUT NO OTHER CHANGES TO THE ZONES. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MCAVOY
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 6:27 AM EDT, 13 hours 20 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.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 9, 6:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
605 PM EDT WED JUL 09 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
505 PM NEWLAND NC WIND DAMAGE
07/09/03 AVERY 911 CENTER REPORTS WIND
DAMAGE/TREES DOWN COUNTY
WIDE.
TJBSpecial weather statement, Jul 9, 6:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
NCZ036-037-057-071-072-082-092330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 622 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2003 A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST AT 30 MPH ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT EARLY THIS EVENING. BY 625 PM... THE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE INTERSTATE 77 CORRIDOR FROM CHARLOTTE NORTH TO MOORESVILLE TO STATESVILLE. BY 650 PM...THE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST...AFFECTING TOWNS FROM MONROE...NORTH TO CONCORD TO MOCKSVILLE. THE STORMS WILL CONTAIN STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MPH AND HAIL LARGER THAN PENNIES. WINDS FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY AFFECT AREAS 10 TO 15 MILES AHEAD OF THE STORMS. BE ABLE TO SEEK SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN YOUR AREA. NED
Local storm report, Jul 9, 6:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
634 PM EDT WED JUL 09 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
600 PM LENOIR NC WIND DAMAGE
07/09/03 CALDWELL LENOIR PD REPORTED
POWERLINES BLOWN DOWN IN
LENOIR.
CORRECTED LENOIR SPELLING.Local storm report, Jul 9, 7:01 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
701 PM EDT WED JUL 09 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
630 PM 7 SE TAYLORSVILLE NC WIND DAMAGE
07/09/03 ALEXANDER 911 CENTER REPORTED TREES
DOWN IN STONEY POINT AND
ALSO AT STONEY POINT
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
620 PM LONGVIEW NC .88 INCH HAIL
07/09/03 CATAWBA SPOTTER REPORTED NICKEL
TO PENNY HAIL IN LONGVIEW
625 PM NW HICKORY NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/09/03 CATAWBA SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER
SIZE HAIL AND WINDS
ESTIMATED NEAR 50 MPH.
625 PM 5 NE HICKORY NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/09/03 CATAWBA SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER
SIZE HAIL NEAR ST
STEPHENS AREA.
CORRECTED FOR LONGVIEW.Special weather statement, Jul 9, 7:05 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
NCZ036-037-057-092345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 705 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2003 A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST AT 30 MPH ACROSS THE NORTHERN NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT EARLY THIS EVENING. AT 705 PM... THE STORMS WERE OVER MOCKSVILLE TO MOORESVILLE. BY 730 PM...THE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST TO SALISBURY AND KANNAPOLIS. THESE STORMS WILL CONTAIN FREQUENT LIGHTNING...PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS. NED
Local storm report, Jul 9, 7:33 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
634 PM EDT WED JUL 09 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
600 PM LENOIR NC WIND DAMAGE
07/09/03 CALDWELL LENOIR PD REPORTED
POWERLINES BLOWN DOWN IN
LENOIR.
CORRECTED LENOIR SPELLING.The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 58 min |
Nearby
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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.