Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 95, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 2003, 10:28 PM EDT for Polk 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 30, 2003, 10:28 PM EDT (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2003, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:28 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 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 310232 FFWGSP NCC149-310530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1028 PM EDT WED JUL 30 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... POLK COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 130 AM EDT * AT 1018 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER POLK COUNTY. A COUPLE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FELL OVER CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY. ANOTHER COUPLE OF INCHES OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED OVER THIS AREA AS ANOTHER BAND OF STORMS SPREAD UP FROM THE SOUTH. 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. 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. $$ RBN
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KGSP 310432 FFSGSP NCC149-310530- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1225 AM EDT THU JUL 31 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 130 AM EDT FOR POLK COUNTY... COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS RECENTLY REPORTED SOME ROADS FLOODED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY AND A MUDSLIDE HAD OCCURRED ALONG HIGHWAY 108 NEAR MILL SPRING. DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES A LARGE SWATH OF 3 TO 4 INCHES HAD FALLEN FROM AROUND COLUMBUS NORTHEAST THROUGH MILL SPRING AND LAKE ADGER OVER TO THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY LINE SINCE WEDNESDAY EVENING. RADAR TRENDS DID SHOW HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING OVER THE COUNTY WITH HOURLY RAINFALL RATES UP TO AN INCH. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. USE CAUTION IN OR NEAR ANY SMALL CREEK TONIGHT...AND AVOID ROUTES THAT YOU KNOW ARE FLOOD PRONE. $$ 55
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 30, 10:19 PM EDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 10:19 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1019 PM EDT WED JUL 30 2003 EXTREMELY BUSY WITH FFW/S THIS EVENING...HAVE ISSUED UPDATED FFA TO EXTEND THRU TONIGHT & ADDED MCDOWELL COUNTY AS WELL. KGSP VWP INDICATES VERY FAVORABLE DEEP SSE FLOW FOR CONTINUED REDEVELOPMENT WITH 00Z AREA SNDGS INDICATING PWATS AROUND 130 PERCENT OF NORMAL. WILL ALSO NEED TO MONITOR OUTFLOW DRIVEN TSTMS EXTENDING EAST TOWARD CLT AS WELL...BUT THIS AREA IS PROPAGATING INTO A MORE STABLE AIRMASS AS PER LATEST MSAS... SO HOPEFULLY AREAL EXTENT OF HEAVY RAIN THREAT EAST OF THE WATCH AREA WILL BE MORE LIMITED. OTHERWISE...AS FAR AS POP GRIDS GO TONIGHT...WILL OBVIOUSLY BE INCREASING IN MANY AREAS BASED ON CURRENT COVERAGE AND CONTINUED UPSLOPE AND ALSO FOR POTENTIAL INCREASE IN LLVL UPGLIDE FLOW EXPECTED OVERNIGHT STARTING THE FAR WEST. FCSTID = 55 GSP 70 86 71 86 / 100 60 60 50 AND 71 88 72 87 / 70 60 60 40 CLT 70 86 71 87 / 100 60 60 50 HKY 67 83 69 84 / 40 60 60 50 AVL 66 82 67 82 / 50 60 60 40 .GSP... GA...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ZONES GAZ010...GAZ017>018. NC...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ054-NCZ063>067. SC...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ZONES SCZ001>007.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 4:30 AM EDT, 17 hours 58 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-301100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 430 AM EDT WED JUL 30 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 THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. RB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 9:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | McDowell, Rutherford | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 10:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Union | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 12:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | McDowell, Rutherford | 3 hr |
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.