Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Mar 20, 2003, 1:30 AM EST for Greenville County, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 4 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
- Mar 20, 2003, 1:30 AM EST (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2003, 5:30 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greenville County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:31 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 405 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 475 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 200630 FFWGSP SCC045-083-201030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 130 AM EST THU MAR 20 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SPARTANBURG COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 530 AM EST * AT 125 AM EST...FLASH FLOODING WAS ONGOING IN GREENVILLE COUNTY... WITH SOME FLOODING LIKELY IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY. NUMEROUS SMALL STREAMS HAVE FLOODED...WITH ROADS AND URBAN FLOODING AS WELL. * THE FLASH FLOODING WILL LIKELY BECOME MUCH WORSE AND MORE WIDESPREAD DURING THE NIGHT. FLOODING IS LIKELY AROUND BEREA... INMAN...CAMPOBELL...REIDVILLE...ALONG GILDER CREEK FROM MAULDIN TO EAST OF SIMPSONVILLE...AND AROUND TAYLORS AND GREER. IN DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE...THE REEDY RIVER WAS AT 9.2 FEET AT 125 AM. SOME DATA INDICATES THAT WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN...THE RIVER COULD RISE TO 11 FEET OR MORE. AT THAT LEVEL...NUMEROUS DOWNTOWN STREETS FLOOD...AND WATER ENTERS SOME BUILDINGS. FLOOD PRONE AREAS OF DOWNTOWN SPARTANBURG WILL ALSO FLOOD. DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS...SEVERE URBAN FLOODING CAN OCCUR IN AREAS SUCH AS UNDERPASSES AND LOW AREAS WHERE WATER TENDS TO COLLECT. CHILDREN SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM SMALL STREAMS AND FLOODED STORM DRAINS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. $$ JONES
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KGSP 200930 FFSGSP SCC045-083-201030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 430 AM EST THU MAR 20 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 AM EST FOR SPARTANBURG AND GREENVILLE COUNTIES... FLOODING CONTINUES AROUND GREENVILLE COUNTY...AND LIKELY AROUND SPARTANBURG COUNTY THIS MORNING. SMALL STREAMS WERE FLOODING ROADS...AND ADDITIONAL RISES WILL CONTINUE FOR A WHILE THIS MORNING. THE REEDY RIVER IN DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE WAS OVER 10 FEET AND STILL RISING. AT 11 FEET...STREETS FLOOD IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA...AND WATER ENTERS SOME BUILDINGS. DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS...SEVERE URBAN FLOODING CAN OCCUR IN AREAS SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...AND LOW AREAS WHERE WATER TENDS TO COLLECT. CHILDREN SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM SMALL STREAMS AND STORM DRAINS. DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER. $$ JONES
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 Mar 20, 12:38 AM EST, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 12:38 AM EST, 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1238 AM EST THU MAR 20 2003 UPDATING ZONES TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #63. FCSTID = 4 .GSP... GA...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY FOR ZONES GAZ010... GAZ017>018...GAZ026...GAZ028>029. NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY FOR ZONES NCZ033>037... NCZ048>059...NCZ062>072...NCZ082. SC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY FOR ZONES SCZ001>014... SCZ019. LANE
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 19, 2:55 PM EST, 10 hours 35 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-192145- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 255 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT... POSSIBLY ACCOMPANIED BY TORNADOES ALONG THE BORDER OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THURSDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. 07
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 19, 9:17 PM EST, 4 hours 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
917 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
910 PM DEWEY ROSE GA .88 INCH HAIL
03/19/03 ELBERT ELBERT 911 RELAYED PUBLIC
REPORT
JONESLocal storm report, Mar 19, 10:04 PM EST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1004 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
955 PM TIGERVILLE SC FLASH FLOOD
03/19/03 GREENVILLE NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED
BEAVER DAM CREEK FLOODING
JONESLocal storm report, Mar 19, 10:45 PM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1045 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1012 PM 3 NE WARE SHOALS SC .75 INCH HAIL
03/20/03 LAURENS RELAY OF PUBLIC REPORT BY
COUNTY 911.
NEDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 8:32 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:34 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 65 min |
| Mar 20, 1:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 1:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 46 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in South 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.