Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Feb 6, 2004, 5:02 PM EST for Union 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
- Feb 6, 2004, 5:02 PM EST (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2004, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Union County, NC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 353 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 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 062202
FFWGSP
NCC179-070100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
502 PM EST FRI FEB 6 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
UNION COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA.
* UNTIL 800 PM EST
* AT 455 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY RAIN
CONTINUING ACROSS UNION COUNTY. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED MORE THAN AN
INCH OF RAINFALL SINCE ABOUT 3 PM...IN ADDITION TO MODERATE TO
HEAVY RAIN WHICH FELL EARLIER.
* RADAR SHOWED A COUPLE MORE BATCHES OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND SOME
THUNDERSTORMS...WHICH WILL MOVE ACROSS UNION COUNTY LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THIS WILL PRODUCE ANOTHER INCH
OF RAIN AT LEAST...AND WILL BE ENOUGH TO CAUSE QUICK RISES IN
FLOOD PRONE AREAS BETWEEN MONROE AND THE MECKLENBURG LINE...AND
ELSEWHERE IN THE COUNTY.
SOME ROADS WILL FLOOD AND WILL LIKELY BE BARRICADED. DO NOT DRIVE
INTO FLOODED AREAS...WHETHER BARRICADED OR NOT. MOST FLOOD DEATHS
HAPPEN IN VEHICLES.
LAT...LON 3500 8030 3482 8034 3482 8078 3501 8078
3521 8053 3516 8046 3517 8029
$$
JONES2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KGSP 062330 FFSGSP NCC179-070100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 628 PM EST FRI FEB 6 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 PM EST FOR UNION COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA... AT 628 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH INTO UNION COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA. THESE SHOWERS WERE PRODUCING RAINFALL AT RATES IN EXCESS OF ONE HALF INCH PER HOUR. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY WORSEN ALREADY EXISTING FLOOD PROBLEMS THROUGH 8 PM. FLOODING AROUND THE COUNTY HAS BEEN REPORTED ON LAWYERS ROAD...RIDGE ROAD...WAXHAW ROAD...AND ROCKY RIDGE ROAD WHERE A CAR WAS REPORTED SUBMERGED UP TO THE WINDSHIELD IN WATER. SOME RESIDENTS HAVE REPORTED GARAGES BEING FLOODED ALONG INDIAN TRAIL STREAM. KEEP AN EYE ON THE WEATHER AND NEARBY STREAM CONDITIONS. PEOPLE ALONG STREAMS SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING AFFECTS THEIR LOCATION. DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER. $$ GERAPETRITIS
000 WGUS72 KGSP 070104 FFSGSP NCC179-070120- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 800 PM EST FRI FEB 6 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR UNION COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA HAS EXPIRED AT 8 PM EST... AT 800 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED LINGERING LIGHT RAINFALL OVER THE NORTHERN PART OF UNION COUNTY. THIS RAINFALL SHOULD TAPER OFF FROM THE WEST BY 9 PM. COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS REPORTS NO NEW FLOODING OVER THE PAST HOUR...AND SEVERAL FLOODED LOCATIONS HAVE SHOWN SOME IMPROVEMENT. THE WARNING WILL THUS BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. EVEN THOUGH NO NEW STREAM OR CREEK FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED... ISOLATED FLOODING COULD STILL EXIST AROUND THE COUNTY. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO USE CAUTION IF TRAVELING THIS EVENING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO 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. $$ HG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 12:07 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery, Mitchell | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.