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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Charleston, SC

June 3, 2005Bryan County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2005, 7:23 PM EDT for Bryan County, Georgia. It was in force for 2 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 3, 2005, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2005, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bryan County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 499 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS52 KCHS 032325
FFWCHS
GAC029-040130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
723 PM EDT FRI JUN 3 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BRYAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 719 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING FROM A   
  THUNDERSTORM NEAR PEMBROKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.  RADAR    
  ESTIMATES 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER NORTHERN BRYAN     
  COUNTY OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS.  AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES IS    
  LIKELY OVER THE NEXT HOUR WHICH WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING.

* FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN AND AROUND...
  PEMBROKE AND GROVELAND...
  LANIER...
  ELLABELL...
  BLITCHTON...

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 3214 8176 3204 8161 3215 8141 3222 8145

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS72 KCHS 040028
FFSCHS

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
822 PM EDT FRI JUN 3 2005

GAC029-040130-
BRYAN-
822 PM EDT FRI JUN 3 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR BRYAN
COUNTY...

AT 818 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS ACROSS 
NORTHERN BRYAN COUNTY NEAR PEMBROKE. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY 
STATIONARY AND WAS PRODUCING RAIN RATES OVER 2 INCHES PER HOUR.  
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT AS MUCH AS 5 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 
FALLEN IN AND AROUND PEMBROKE. COUNTY OFFICIALS INDICATE THAT MANY 
ROADS ARE FLOODED AND SOME HOMES ARE FLOODING AS WELL.

AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT HOUR.  

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION.  IF YOU ARE IN A LOW LYING 
AREA...GO TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN 
IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  
DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR
REPORTS TO CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV.

LAT...LON 3214 8176 3204 8161 3215 8141 3222 8145

$$

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.