Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2003, 5:14 PM EDT for Burke 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
- Jul 13, 2003, 5:14 PM EDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2003, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burke County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 132114 FFWGSP NCC023-140015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 514 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BURKE COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 506 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING EAST ACROSS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING THE COUNTY FROM THE WEST. * RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAINFALL WILL BE COMPOUNDED BY THE ADDITIONAL RUNOFF FROM NEW THUNDERSTORMS...CAUSING STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RISE ABOVE BANKFULL. THE MORGANTON AREA WILL BE THE MOST PRONE TO FLOODING...SINCE THAT IS WHERE MOST OF THE RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED. 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. STAY TUNED TO THE MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. $$ 07
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KGSP 132247 FFSGSP NCC023-140015- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 644 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR BURKE COUNTY... RAINFALL HAS DIMINISHED IN BURKE COUNTY. RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RISE. URBAN FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN MORGANTON. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...WHICH COULD CAUSE RUNOFF TO INCREASE...PUSHING WATER LEVELS EVEN HIGER. DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER. $$ 07
000 WGUS72 KGSP 140020 FFSGSP NCC023-140115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 819 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BURKE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 815 PM... AT 815...RADAR SHOWED NO RAINFALL OVER BURKE COUNTY. COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED SEVERAL ROADS HAD WATER OVER THEM EARLIER...BUT CONDITIONS HAD GREATLY IMPROVED TOWARD THE END OF THE WARNING TIME. THERE WAS ALSO SOME URBAN FLOODING IN MORGANTON. STREAMS AND CREEKS ACROSS THE COUNTY WERE ELEVATED. RADAR DID SHOW A CLUSTER OF STORMS MOVING OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE BACK OVER BURKE COUNTY AT SOME POINT THIS EVENING...WHICH COULD CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING...AND COULD CAUSE A FEW STREAMS OR CREEKS TO COME OUT OF THEIR BANKS. 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. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ BURRUS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 8:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 45 min |
| Jul 12, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 39 min |
| Jul 12, 8:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 42 min |
| Jul 12, 9:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | McDowell | 2 hr |
| Jul 12, 9:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 46 min |
| Jul 12, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell, Rutherford | 65 min |
| Jul 12, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 58 min |
| Jul 12, 10:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 59 min |
| Jul 12, 10:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 10:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 48 min |
| Jul 12, 11:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 11:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 40 min |
| Jul 12, 11:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 40 min |
| Jul 13, 12:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 44 min |
| Jul 13, 1:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Union | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 1:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Union | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 47 min |
| Jul 13, 4:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Union | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 56 min |
| Jul 13, 5:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham | 48 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.