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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2004, 10:22 AM EDT for Charleston County, South Carolina; 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 84 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2004, 10:22 AM EDT (14:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2004, 3:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 84 days
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Candler County, GA, Evans County, GA, Long County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Charleston County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:25 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 1119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 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 KCHS 151423
FFWCHS
SCC019-151715-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1022 AM EDT TUE JUN 15 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CHARLESTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 115 PM EDT
* AT 1022 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING 2 MILES
NORTHEAST OF WEST ASHLEY. THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY
RAIN ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
* FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR IN AND AROUND...
WEST ASHLEY AND JOHNS ISLAND...
NORTH CHARLESTON...
DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE RAPID FLOODING OF
ROADWAYS...SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...LOW-LYING AREAS AND DITCHES.
TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024.
LAT...LON 3279 8017 3271 8008 3279 7995 3283 7994
3289 8001
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS52 KCHS 070152
FFWCHS
GAC043-109-183-267-070745-
/X.NEW.KCHS.FF.W.0006.040907T0147Z-040907T0745Z/
/0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
947 PM EDT MON SEP 6 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
LONG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
EVANS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
TATTNALL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
CANDLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 345 AM EDT
* AT 945 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN IN ASSOCIATION
WITH TROPICAL STORM FRANCES OVER A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST
GEORGIA. THE RAIN WAS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH. EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT IN THE WARNED COUNTIES WERE ALREADY REPORTING NUMEROUS
DIRT AND RURAL ROADS IMPASSABLE WITH STANDING WATER.
* FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN AND AROUND...
LUDOWICI...
GLENNVILLE...
CLAXTON...
METTER...
REIDSVILLE AND COBBTOWN...
REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS
AND ASK THEM TO IMMEDIATELY RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE OFFICE IN CHARLESTON.
TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024.
LAT...LON 3173 8203 3155 8168 3162 8158 3171 8152
3177 8166 3189 8178 3201 8182 3210 8174
3216 8181 3222 8184 3230 8193 3242 8194
3262 8209 3242 8236 3191 8222
$$
24The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 8:29 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 9:03 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 42 min |
| Jun 15, 10:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Berkeley | 75 days |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2004Flash Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.