Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 2003, 9:35 PM EDT for Iredell 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 14, 2003, 9:35 PM EDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2003, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iredell County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 2167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KGSP 150136 FFWGSP NCC097-150430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 935 PM EDT MON JUL 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... IREDELL COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1230 AM EDT * AT 935 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF NEARLY STATIONARY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...FROM SCOTTS TO THE OUTER LIMITS OF STATESVILLE. THE STORMS EXTENDED NORTH TO NEAR TURNERSBURG. RAINFALL OF 3 INCHES HAD BEEN ESTIMATED BY RADAR IN THE VICINITY OF FORT DOBBS. * URBAN FLOODING IS LIKELY IN STATESVILLE...AND WATER WILL LIKELY IMPACT TRAFFIC. IN ADDITION...SIGNIFICANT RISES ON THE FOURTH...FIFTH AND GREGORY CREEKS CAN BE EXPECTED. SOME OF THESE CREEKS WILL LIKELY COME OUT OF THEIR BANKS. DO NOT EVER DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO AN AREA WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER MAY BE FLOWING FAST ENOUGH TO PICK YOUR VEHICLE UP AND CARRY IT DOWNSTREAM. TO REPORT FLOODING HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG. $$ BURRUS
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KGSP 150249 FFSGSP NCC097-150430- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1047 PM EDT MON JUL 14 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1230 AM EDT FOR IREDELL COUNTY... AT 1045 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED JUST SCATTERED STORMS OVER IREDELL COUNTY. THE BATCH OF HEAVY RAIN THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING JUST NORTH OF STATESVILLE HAD DISSIPATED...BUT NOT BEFORE PRODUCING BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN...MAINLY IN THE VICINITY OF FORT DOBBS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN AT 1045 PM WAS IN THE UNION GROVE AREA OF NORTHEAST IREDELL COUNTY. ANOTHER NEARLY STATIONARY CELL WAS IN THE VICINITY OF MOORESVILLE. NO FLOODING HAD YET BEEN REPORTED TO COUNTY OFFICIALS OR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HOWEVER...SIGNIFICANT RISES ON FOURTH...FIFTH AND GREGORY CREEKS SHOULD OCCUR...AND RISES ON STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD OCCUR IN THE SOUTHERN HALF OF IREDELL COUNTY AS THE EXCESS WATER WORKS ITS WAY THROUGH COUNTY CREEK BASINS. IT IS POSSIBLE THE WARNING COULD BE CANCELLED EARLY IF ALL OF THE SHOWERS AND STORMS DISSIPATE WITH NO REPORTS OF FLOODING. DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER. $$ BURRUS
000 WGUS72 KGSP 150315 FFSGSP NCC097-150415- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1114 PM EDT MON JUL 14 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 AM EDT FOR IREDELL COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED... AT 1114 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD EXITED IREDELL COUNTY. NO FLOODING WAS REPORTED TO EITHER COUNTY OFFICIALS OR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ALTHOUGH NO FLOODING HAD BEEN OBSERVED...EXPECT STEADY RISES ON STREAMS AND CREEKS IN SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTY FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. 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. $$ BURRUS
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 14, 2:35 PM EDT, 7 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 2:35 PM EDT, 7 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 235 PM EDT MON JUL 14 2003 ONLY MINOR DAY TO DAY CHANGES IN FORECAST FOR THE WEEK. A VERY POORLY DEFINED BOUNDARY REMAINS ACROSS THE CAROLINAS AND CONTINUES TO WEAKEN WITH TIME. POPS DROP OFF TOMORROW AS A WEAK SUBSIDENCE CAP AND DRIER MIDLEVEL AIR MOVES OVER AREA. THEN A FRONT OVER THE MIDWEST DRIFTS INTO SOUTHEAST BY MIDWEEK AND STALLS OVER OUR AREA. STILL WE ARE ONLY LOOKING AT ONLY CHANCE OR LOWER POPS THROUGH THE WEEK. WHILE GFS PUSHES THE FRONT AND DRIER AIR SOUTH OF US... WE AGREE WITH HPC THAT FRONT AND ASSOCIATED CONVERGENCE WILL REMAIN STALLED ACROSS NC FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK. FRONT AND MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO GENERATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. LITTLE TEMPERATURE CHANGES THROUGH THE WEEK. POPS LOWERED FOR TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. FCSTID = 0 GSP 68 88 70 90 / 40 20 20 30 AND 68 88 70 90 / 40 20 20 40 CLT 68 88 70 90 / 50 20 20 30 HKY 66 87 69 88 / 30 20 20 30 AVL 62 84 64 85 / 30 20 20 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. DICARLO
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 5:58 AM EDT, 15 hours 37 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-141200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 558 AM EDT MON JUL 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...LARGE HAIL...AND EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. FOR MORE INFORMATION...SEE THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK (SPSGSP) ISSUED AT 324 AM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EVERY DAY THIS WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. MOORE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 14, 4:08 PM EDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
408 PM EDT MON JUL 14 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1045 PM MT HOLLY NC WIND DAMAGE
07/12/03 MECKLENBURG ETV REPORTED TREES DOWN
IN MT HOLLY.
TJBNearby
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.