Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2004, 2:55 PM EDT for Iredell 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 2004, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2004, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Iredell County, NC, Rowan County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 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 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 562 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1077 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KGSP 301856 FFWGSP NCC097-159-302145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 255 PM EDT WED JUN 30 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA SOUTHERN ROWAN COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 255 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR MOORESVILLE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF STATESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LANDIS AND CHINA GROVE. HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER THE AREA AND WILL CAUSE STREAMS TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. LAT...LON 3562 8092 3553 8093 3552 8027 3570 8035 $$ PAT
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KGSP 302058 FFSGSP NCC097-159-302145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 457 PM EDT WED JUN 30 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR SOUTHERN ROWAN AND SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTIES... AT 455 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT ONLY A LIGHT RAIN REMAINED OVER SOUTHERN ROWAN COUNTY WITH NO RAIN FALLING OVER SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTY. WHILE THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...SOME FLOODING HAS RECENTLY BEEN REPORTED EXTREME SOUTHWEST ROWAN COUNTY. A SPOTTER REPORTED THAT A CREEK WAS OUT OF ITS BANKS AND FLOODING SEVERAL CORN FIELDS ALONG UNITY CHURCH ROAD. THIS IS ABOUT HALF WAY BETWEEN MOORESVILLE AND LANDIS. NO FLOODING HAS YET BEEN REPORTED IN IREDELL COUNTY. LAT...LON 3562 8092 3553 8093 3552 8027 3570 8035 $$ MCAVOY
000 WGUS72 KGSP 302144 FFSGSP NCC097-159-302145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 542 PM EDT WED JUN 30 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHERN ROWAN AND SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 545 PM EDT... NO ADDITIONAL REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED...THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER...WATER LEVELS WILL REMAIN HIGH IN SOUTHWESTERN ROWAN COUNTY FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. LAT...LON 3562 8092 3553 8093 3552 8027 3570 8035 $$ MCAVOY
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 30, 9:11 AM EDT, 5 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 9:11 AM EDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 911 AM EDT WED JUN 30 2004 .SHORT TERM (REST OF TODAY)... UPDATING TO RAISE POPS TO CATEGORICAL 1ST PERIOD FOR THE SRN AND CENTRAL NC MTNS...NE GA AND MOST OF THE UPSTATE. COMBINATION OF WEAK DEEP LAYER ASCENT WITH H5 SHORT WAVE WORKING IN FROM THE WEST...HIGH LAYER RH VALUES AND INCREASING SE LLVL FLOW (ALBEIT ONLY AROUND 10 KTS) IS RESULTING IN QUITE A RESPONSE WITH WIDESPREAD RA/SHRA AND FEW TSRA WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER THE SRN PART OF THE CWFA. PCPN WL HAVE A LITTLE TROUBLE WORKING INTO THE NC PIEDMONT AND NRN FOOTHILLS AND HAVE LEFT THE POPS A LITTLE OVER THERE. HOWEVER...EXPECT GOOD CONVECTIVE COVERAGE THERE INTO THE AFTN AS WELL ONCE THERE IS A LITTLE HEATING. WL ALSO INCREASE CLOUD COVER CONSIDERABLY IN THE GRIDS. NOT SURE IF IT WL COME OUT CLOUDY OR MOSTLY CLOUDY IN THE TEXT...BUT SUNSHINE WL CERTAINLY BE LIMITED TDA...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... THE FOLLOWING WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED AT 238 AM EDT WED JUN 30 2004 SHORT TERM (TODAY-FRI)... WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY STRETCHED ACROSS CWA BUT LITTLE IN THE WAY OF UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS UNTIL THIS AFTERNOON WHEN WEAK UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE MOVES ACROSS AREA. H85 UPSLOPE FLOW INCREASES THIS AFTERNOON-EVE AS WELL WITH DEEPER MOISTURE MOVING IN FROM THE SW...SO LIKELY SHOWERS/TSTMS STILL LOOKS GOOD. MOISTURE NOT AS DEEP THU BUT MODELS BRING WEAK TROF IN THE AFTN-EVE SO WITH LOW LEVELS STAYING MOIST WILL STICK WITH GOING CHANCE POPS. DEEPER MOISTURE FCST TO RETURN FRI WITH ANOTHER WEAK WAVE ALOFT SO NO CHANGE TO SOLID CHANCE FOR LATE DAY CONVECTION. LONG TERM (SAT-TUE)... LITTLE CHANGE REST OF WEEK WITH SERIES OF WEAK UPPER WAVES EMBEDDED IN FLOW ALOFT...COMBINED WITH SFC HIGH PRESSURE OFF THE SOUTHEAST COAST WHICH WILL KEEP THE REGION IN MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW. EXTENDED FORECAST IN GOOD SHAPE DEPICTING CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTN-EVE POPS THROUGH THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND AND INTO FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK. AVIATION... BL HAS BEEN ABLE TO MOISTEN SIGNIFICANTLY DESPITE THE RELATIVELY LOW DWPTS REACHED TUE AFTERNOON. WITH LIGHT WINDS AND THIN HIGH CLOUDS WILL EXPECT ALL TERMINALS EAST OF THE MTNS TO DEVELOP PERIODS OF MVFR FOG AFTER 9Z. KAVL IS ALREADY THE EXCEPTION WITH OBS POINTING OUT VIS DOWN TO 1SM AND CEILING AT 500FT. 5Z FLP VS. 0Z MAV/FWC GUIDANCE SHOWING SOME SALIENT DIFFERENCES IN FOG/STRATUS POTENTIAL AT KAVL THIS MORNING. WILL SIDE WITH THE FLP AND BRING AVL DOWN TO THE VLIFR CATEGORY THIS MORNING AND A STEADY IMPROVEMENT AFTER SUNRISE. BY 18Z...UPSLOPE FLOW...POOLING CAPES...AND APPROACHING VORT MAX WILL RESULT IN SH/TS DEVELOPMENT OVER THE FA. WILL HANDLE WITH VCSH FM18-19 WITH TEMPO THROUGH 0Z FOR SHOWERS/CB. AFTER 0Z...WILL MAINTAIN MENTION OF -RA AT TERMINALS CLOSER TO THE BETTER FORCING...BUT WILL KEEP CONDITIONS MVFR OR BETTER PER MOS GUIDANCE. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...MCAVOY
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 5:16 AM EDT, 9 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 516 AM EDT WED JUN 30 2004 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-010900- 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- 516 AM EDT WED JUN 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME QUITE STRONG WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. HEAVY RAIN...ESPECIALLY IF STORMS REDEVELOP AND MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS...COULD CAUSE AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. RB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North 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.