Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2004, 1:04 AM EDT for Polk County, Rutherford 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2004, 1:04 AM EDT (05:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2004, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:05 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 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
- 920 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KGSP 150504 FFWGSP NCC149-161-150800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 104 AM EDT TUE JUN 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA POLK COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 400 AM EDT * AT 1255 AM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN POLK COUNTY...AND INTO WESTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY. SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THE LAST FEW HOURS. STORMS WERE REDEVLOPING AND AFFECTING THE SAME AREAS. * THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE AROUND... 4 MILES EAST OF LAKE LURE BY 130 AM EDT 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. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT TRY TO DRIVE ACROSS WATER COVERED ROADS. LAT...LON 3523 8234 3517 8213 3549 8197 3556 8223 $$ 07
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 Jun 15, 12:43 AM EDT, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 12:43 AM EDT, 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1243 AM EDT TUE JUN 15 2004 .UPDATE... HAVE ISSUED A FLOOD WATCH IN AREAS THAT LOOK TO HAVE THE BEST UPSLOPE COMPONENT EARLY THIS MORNING. RUC SHOWING THAT THE SHORT WAVE OVER NRN GA WL BECOME EVEN A LITTLE BETTER DEFINED AS IT CROSSES THE CWA EARLY THIS MORNING. UPSLOPE RESULTING IN WIDESPREAD SHRA/TSRA ALONG THE ESCARPMENT. VERY HIGH PWAT/S WL RESULT IN VERY EFFICIENT PCPN RATES. GROUND TRUTH SHOWING THAT TROPICAL ZR WORKING BETTER THAN STANDARD RELATIONSHIP TNGT. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 6 AM TODAY GAZ010-017-018. NC...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 6 AM TODAY NCZ034-054-055-059-062>067. SC...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 6 AM TODAY SCZ001>007. && MCAVOY
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 6:00 AM EDT, 19 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 600 AM EDT MON JUN 14 2004 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-151000- ABBEVILLE SC-ALEXANDER NC-ANDERSON SC-AVERY NC-BUNCOMBE NC-BURKE NC- CABARRUS NC-CALDWELL NC-CATAWBA NC-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER SC- CLEVELAND NC-DAVIE NC-ELBERT GA-FRANKLIN GA-GASTON NC-GRAHAM NC- GREATER GREENVILLE SC-GREATER OCONEE SC-GREATER PICKENS SC- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC-GREENWOOD SC-HABERSHAM GA-HART GA-HAYWOOD NC- HENDERSON NC-IREDELL NC-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MACON NC-MADISON NC- MCDOWELL NC-MECKLENBURG NC-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC-POLK NC-RABUN GA-ROWAN NC- RUTHERFORD NC-SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SPARTANBURG SC-STEPHENS GA- SWAIN NC-TRANSYLVANIA NC-UNION SC-UNION NC-YANCEY NC-YORK SC- 600 AM EDT MON JUN 14 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AGAIN TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN THAT COULD POSSIBLY RESULT IN SOME FLOODING CONCERNS...PARTICULARLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA. A FLOOD WATCH MAY BE ISSUED LATER TODAY. FOR MORE INFORMATION...SEE THE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT (SPSGSP) ISSUED AT 447 AM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY AND TUESDAY EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT...MAINLY FOR REPORTING RAINFALL. MOORE
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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.