Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 86, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2003, 6:16 PM EDT for Davie County, Rowan 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 29, 2003, 6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2003, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Davie County, NC, Rowan County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 681 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KGSP 292216 FFWGSP NCC059-159-300100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 616 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... DAVIE COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA NORTHERN ROWAN COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 602 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED CLUSTERS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN DAVIE...AND NORTHERN ROWAN COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN BETWEEN DAVIE ACADEMY CORNERS...AND NEEDMORE. THE HEAVY RAIN WAS SHIFTING TOWARD THE WOODLEAF AREA. IN ADDITION...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO THE AREA FROM THE WEST. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN COULD FALL IN LOCATIONS THAT HAVE ALREADY SEEN HEAVY RAINFALL...AND IT IS LIKELY THAT EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL SPREAD TO ALL OF DAVIE COUNTY...AND MOST OF NORTHERN ROWAN COUNTY THROUGH 9 PM. * FLASH FLOODING OF SHALLOW STREAMS AND CREEKS IS LIKELY...ESPECIALLY HUNTING AND LITTLE CREEKS IN DAVIE COUNTY...AND FOURTH...BEAVERDAM...THIRD AND SECOND CREEKS IN ROWAN COUNTY. EVENTUALLY...WATER FROM MOST OF THESE WATERWAYS WILL CONVERGE IN THE SOUTH YADKIN RIVER...AND HIGH WATER COULD AFFECT COOLEEMEE LATER TONIGHT. 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. TO REPORT FLOODING HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG. $$ BURRUS
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KGSP 292316 FFSGSP NCC059-159-300100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 715 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR DAVIE AND NORTHERN ROWAN COUNTIES... AT 710 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. RAINFALL CONTINUES AT THE RATE OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. SOME LOCATIONS BETWEEN NEEDMORE AND WOODLEAF IN NORTHERN ROWAN COUNTY HAVE RECEIVED AS MUCH AS 4 INCHES OF RAIN THIS AFTERNOON. THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAD SPREAD SOUTH...TOWARD SALISBURY...AND KANNAPOLIS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 2 TO 3 INCHES COULD AFFECT DAVIE AND ROWAN COUNTIES THROUGH 9 PM. STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE RISING RAPIDLY IN SOUTHERN DAVIE AND NORTHERN ROWAN COUNTIES. ONE EVACUATION HAD ALREADY OCCURRED AT A HOME NEAR FOURTH CREEK IN NORTHWEST ROWAN COUNTY. IN ADDITION...A BRIDGE WAS CLOSED ON MOUNT VERNON ROAD DUE TO WATER FROM FOURTH CREEK OVERTOPPING THE BRIDGE. FLOODING IS ALSO LIKELY ALONG SECOND CREEK...AND COULD DEVELOP ON THIRD CREEK. TO THE SOUTH...URBAN FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN SALISBURY...AND KANNAPOLIS...AND IT IS POSSIBLE STREAMS AND CREEKS COULD BEGIN FLOODING ROADS IN SOUTHERN ROWAN COUNTY. IN DAVIE COUNTY...NO FLOODING HAD YET BEEN REPORTED BUT MANY ROADS WERE BEGINNING TO ACCRUE STANDING WATER. PART OF JUNCTION ROAD WAS BLOCKED DUE TO STANDING WATER...WITH FIRE DEPARTMENT CREWS FROM COOLEEMEE ON THE SCENE. TO THE NORTH...FLOODING WILL LIKELY DEVELOP IN AND AROUND MOCKSVILLE. STREAM FLOODING MAY ALSO DEVELOP ALONG CARTER AND BAILEY CREEKS NEAR THE YADKIN RIVER. ABUNDANT STANDING WATER CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED IN LOW SPOTS ON ROADWAYS AROUND THE COUNTY. DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER. $$ BURRUS
000 WGUS72 KGSP 300104 FFSGSP NCC059-159-300200- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 900 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR DAVIE AND ROWAN COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED AS OF 900 PM EDT... AT 9 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE EARLIER TORRENTIAL RAINFALL HAD MOVED EAST OF THE AREA. IN ADDITION...THE LIGHT RAIN COVERING THE REGION WAS STEADILY DIMINISHING FROM THE WEST. COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS REPORTED THAT THE EARLIER FLOOD PROBLEMS HAD IMPROVED. SOME ROADWAYS...HOWEVER...MAY STILL BE COVERED WITH WATER. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...OR YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY. $$ HG
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 29, 6:08 PM EDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 6:08 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 608 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003 AFTER COORDINATION WITH SPC...WILL UPDATE TO CLEAR THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS AND THE WESTERN UPSTATE...INCLUDING GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG FROM THE CURRENT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. LAPS ANALYSIS SHOWS LITTLE RESIDUAL INSTABILITY IN WORKED OVER AIRMASS AND VAD WIND PROFILE SHOWS LITTLE SHEAR REMAINING WITH 15 KT WESTERLY FLOW UP THE COLUMN. FCSTID = 33 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. HG
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 29, 4:58 AM EDT, 13 hours 18 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-291100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 458 AM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED ATT HIS TIME. RB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 4:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
NCZ065-292115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 438 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003 ...HENDERSON COUNTY HAS BEEN CLEARED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 812... AT 438 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS HAD MOVED EAST OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS. WHILE A FEW SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS MAY PERSIST ACROSS HENDERSON COUNTY THIS EVENING...NO ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF THE WATCH AREA. GERAPETRITIS
Local storm report, Jul 29, 4:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
441 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
434 PM VALDESE NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/29/03 BURKE HAM REPORTED DIME SIZED
HAIL.
441 PM 3 E BETHLEHEM NC WIND DAMAGE
07/29/03 ALEXANDER SPOTTER REPORTED 4-5
LIMBS BLOWING OFF TREES
AND PEA SIZE HAIL.
LAMBLocal storm report, Jul 29, 5:22 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
522 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
500 PM SPARTANBURG SC WIND DAMAGE
07/29/03 SPARTANBURG COUNTY 911 REPORTED TREES
AND POWERLINES DOWN AT
INTSCN OF CANNONS
CAMPGROUND RD AND
CONVERSE RD.
520 PM 0.5 S FALLSTON NC WIND DAMAGE
07/29/03 CLEVELAND HAM REPORTED 2 ROOFS
BLOWN OFF MOBILE HOMES
NEAR JIM CLINE RD AND HWY
18.
LAMBLocal storm report, Jul 29, 5:46 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
546 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
522 PM WOODLEAF NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/29/03 ROWAN WOODLEAF F.D. REPORTED
DIME SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY
WIND.
LAMBLocal storm report, Jul 29, 5:53 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
553 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
520 PM FALLSTON NC WIND DAMAGE
07/29/03 CLEVELAND UPDATE TO PREVOUS LSR.
NUMEROUS TREES UPROOTED
OR SNAPPED OFF HALFWAYUP.
OUTBUILDINGS BLOWN INTO
THE HIGHWAY. ONE MOBILE
HOME LOST ROOF WHILE MAN
WAS INSIDE. NO INJURIES.
REPORTED BY COUNTY 911
CENTER.
LAMBSpecial weather statement, Jul 29, 6:15 PM EDT, 1 minute before
NCZ034-054-055-066-067-SCZ002-003-005>007-010>012-019-292245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 615 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003 THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS AND THE WESTERN UPSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 812. THIS CLEARANCE AFFECTS THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA... CALDWELL...BURKE...MCDOWELL...RUTHERFORD...AND POLK. AND THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA... PICKENS...GREENVILLE...SPARTANBURG...LAURENS...ANDERSON...ABBEVILLE. ...AND GREENWOOD. THE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS MOVED EAST OF THE AREA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY STILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING...BUT THEY ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. HG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 53 min |
| Jul 29, 2:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 119 min |
| Jul 29, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Catawba | 64 min |
| Jul 29, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jul 29, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell | 47 min |
| Jul 29, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 54 min |
| Jul 29, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 56 min |
| Jul 29, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 58 min |
| Jul 29, 6:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Iredell | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 7:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 110 min |
| Jul 29, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 49 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.