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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2005, 6:25 PM EDT for Cabarrus County, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2005, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2005, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:40 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 3 W Concord, NC | COUNTY SD RELAYED UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF FLOODING...POSSIBLY A CREEK INVOLVED...ALONG POPLAR TENT ROAD. UNITS ENROUTE TO CHECK OUT. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
Did it verify
Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this flash flood warning; the first came 15 minutes after it went out.
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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 092225
FFWGSP
NCC025-119-100115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
625 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA
CABARRUS COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 915 PM EDT
* AT 625 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL THAT COULD
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM CROFT AND
HUNTERSVILLE...NORTH AND EAST TO COX MILL...AND KANNAPOLIS.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT AROUND 5 MPH. NEW STORMS
DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL MECKLENBURG COUNTY SUGGEST MOST
OF THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL MOVE OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS...
LEADING TO SEVERE URBAN FLOODING AND THE POSSIBILITY THAT
SOME STREAMS AND CREEKS MAY COME OUT OF THEIR BANKS.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO KANNAPOLIS.
CREEKS THAT COULD FLOOD INCLUDE STONY CREEK...AND CLARKS CREEK
AND ITS ADJACENT TRIBUTARIES ACROSS NORTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY.
IN CABARRUS COUNTY...RAPID RISES COULD BRING CODDLE CREEK TO
NEAR BANKFULL...AND PRODUCE A STEADY RISE ON THE ROCKY RIVER.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. EVEN MODERN SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES CANNOT BE
SAFELY DRIVEN THROUGH FLOOD WATERS.
LAT...LON 3530 8092 3523 8095 3531 8059 3538 8047
3547 8035 3550 8063 3551 8075 3556 8074
3549 8083
$$
442 follow-up statements
000
WGUS72 KGSP 100004
FFSGSP
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
758 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005
NCC025-119-100115-
MECKLENBURG NC-CABARRUS NC-
758 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR MECKLENBURG
AND CABARRUS COUNTIES...
AT 752 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE HEAVY RAIN OVER WESTERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY...ADJACENT TO
ITS WESTERN BORDER WITH GASTON COUNTY. HEAVY RAIN HAD ENDED OVER
CABARRUS COUNTY...ALTHOUGH SCATTERED SHOWERS REMAINED OVER THE
NORTHERN END...NEAR KANNAPOLIS. RAINFALL OF OVER TWO INCHES HAS BEEN
INDICATED BY RADAR BETWEEN PAW CREEK AND A LOCATION 3 MILES WEST OF
HUNTERSVILLE.
NUMEROUS FLOODED STREETS WERE REPORTED BY BOTH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND
TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY...INCLUDING AROUND
LAKEVIEW IN THE VICINITY OF BEATTIES FORD ROAD. URBAN FLOODING HAD
BEEN REPORTED FROM HENDERSON CIRCLE IN CHARLOTTE...PERHAPS
EXACERBATED BY STREAM FLOODING. IN CABARRUS COUNTY...FLOODING WAS
REPORTED EARLIER FROM THE ODELL SCHOOL ROAD AREA OF POPLAR TENT.
HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE WEAKENING THROUGH THE VALID TIME
OF THIS WARNING...AS MOST OF THE HEAVIER RAINFALL SHIFTS WEST TOWARD
THE FOOTHILLS. HOWEVER...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL REMAIN IN
EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3530 8092 3523 8095 3531 8059 3538 8047
3547 8035 3550 8063 3551 8075 3556 8074
3549 8083
$$000
WGUS72 KGSP 100115
FFSGSP
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
913 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005
NCC025-119-100123-
MECKLENBURG NC-CABARRUS NC-
915 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN CABARRUS AND NORTHERN
MECKLENBURG COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 915 PM EDT...
MOST HEAVY RAINFALL HAD ENDED ACROSS THE WARNING AREA...SO THE FLASH
FLOOD WARNING WILL END. HOWEVER...A NEW CELL WAS DEVELOPING WEST OF
PAW CREEK...IN AN AREA WHICH HAS RECEIVED AS MUCH AS 3 INCHES OR
MORE OF RAINFALL THIS EVENING. A FLOOD WARNING MAY BE ISSUED IF
THIS CELL PERSISTS. HIGH WATER LINGERS IN SOME AREAS...DO NOT DRIVE
INTO FLOODED PLACES.
LAT...LON 3530 8092 3523 8095 3531 8059 3538 8047
3547 8035 3550 8063 3551 8075 3556 8074
3549 8083
$$
JONESWhat 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 9, 2:14 PM EDT, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 2:14 PM EDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 214 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005 .SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT)... UPPER LEVEL RIDGE TO REMAIN ALONG SE USA COAST...WITH TROUGH UPSTREAM OVER GULF STATES. MOISTURE ON W SIDE OF RIDGE TO REMAIN BANKED UP AGAINST S APPALACHIANS IN WEAK UPSLOPE COMPONENT THROUGH FRI EVENING...SUPPORTING POPS RANGING FROM CHANCE E AND TN LINE...TO LIKELY ALONG BLUE RIDGE ESCARPMENT. ON SAT MODELS TRY TO BRING DRIER AIR INTO AREA FROM ATLANTIC. GFS SHOWING SWATH OF HIGH RH WELL E OF TC ARLENE...WHILE ETA...THROUGH FARTHER E WITH ARLENE...IS LESS AGREESIVE WITH MOISTURE. AT THIS TIME...PREFER DRIER ETA SCENARIO AS ITS TRACK IS CLOSER TO TPC TRACK...THOUGH FASTER. ALSO BELIEVE THERE WILL BE A SHARP GRADIENT TO CONVECTION BETWEEN MOIST INFLOW E SIDE OF ARLENE AND DRIER ATLANTIC AIR. WILL LIMIT CHANCE POPS SAT TO MTS AND UPPER SAVANAH RIVER VALLEY. MODELS CONTINUE TO DIFFER WITH MOISTURE SPREADING N AND E INTO AREA SUN AS DRIER ATLANTIC AIR RETREATS...AND HAVE COMPROMISED WITH CHANCE POPS SUN...AGAIN FAVORING BLUE RIDGE IN UPSLOPE COMPONENT. MAX TEMPERATURES TO REMAIN RATHER LIMITED IN CLOUD COVER...EXCEPT IN DRIER AIR ON SAT WHERE FORECAST TRENDS TOWARD HIGH SIDE OF GUIDANCE. MINIMUM TMEPERATURES TO REAMIN UP IN MOIST AIR MASS. WIND GENERALLY FROM SE EARLY...SLOWLY VEERING TO S. LIMITED GUSTS TO LATE SAT AND SUN WHEN GRADIENT TIGHTENS BETWEEN RIDGE AND ARLENE. && .LONG TERM (MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... MEDIUM RANGE FCST LITTLE CHANGED FROM GOING FCST. UPPER RIDGE OVER THE AREA AT THE START OF THE PERIOD WEAKENS AND GIVES WAY TO A SERIES OF SHORT WAVES ON WED WHICH CARVE A TROF OVER THE EAST COAST THURSDAY. SLY FLOW AND DEEP MOISTURE CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THRU WED WHEN A COLD FRONT MOVES IN. CHC...MAINLY DIURNAL...POP CONTINUES THRU THEN. DRIER AIR MOVES IN BEHIND THE FRONT FOR THU...BUT ENOUGH MOISTURE REMAINS ACROSS THE MTNS FOR CHC POP. SOME MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO TEMPS...BUT VALUES REMAIN CLOSE TO PREV FCST. && .AVIATION... AS WE MOVE THROUGH ANOTHER DAY OF WITH THE SAME AIR MASS IN PLACE...FCST IS LITTLE CHANGED FROM PREV FEW. COULD BE SOME BRIEF MVFR CIGS THE NEXT TWO HOURS...BUT VFR WILL PREVAIL...XCPT WHERE TSRA MOVE OVER TAF SITES. AS IN PAST DAYS...VCTS ALL SITES THRU THE EVENING AND WILL AMEND AS NECESSARY. ABOUT MIDNIGHT...MVFR VSBY/CIGS RETURN. HAVE TEMPO FOR IFR VSBY/CIGS MOST LOCATIONS IN LINE WITH THIS MORNINGS OBS. VFR VSBY BY 15Z...BUT MVFR CIGS CONTINUE AS LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND WEAK UPGLIDE CONTINUE. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...JAT LONG TERM...RWH AVIATION...RWH
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 5:45 AM EDT, 12 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 545 AM EDT THU JUN 9 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-101000- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-CALDWELL- ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD- BUNCOMBE-MCDOWELL-BURKE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON- MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-POLK-RUTHERFORD- CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 545 AM EDT THU JUN 9 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE VERY MOIST AIR MASS ACROSS THE REGION WILL PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND INTO TONIGHT. LIGHT WINDS THROUGH A DEEP LAYER OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL RESULT IN SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS WILL CAUSE LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN SOME LOCATIONS. PEOPLE IN FLOOD PRONE AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF HIGH WATER LEVELS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRIMARILY DURING THE AFTERNOONS AND AT NIGHT. THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL EXISTS SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY... ESPECIALLY IN THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MIGHT BE REQUESTED IF FLOODING DEVELOPS. LGL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 6:09 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 609 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-100015- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-CALDWELL- ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD- BUNCOMBE-MCDOWELL-BURKE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON- MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-POLK-RUTHERFORD- CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLAYTON...CLARKESVILLE...TOCCOA... HARTWELL...ELBERTON...NEWLAND...STATESVILLE...MOCKSVILLE... SPRUCE PINE...CHEROKEE...WAYNESVILLE...ASHEVILLE...MARION... MORGANTON...HICKORY...SALISBURY...SYLVA...FRANKLIN...BREVARD... HENDERSONVILLE...COLUMBUS...RUTHERFORDTON...SHELBY...LINCOLNTON... GASTONIA...CHARLOTTE...CONCORD...MONROE...GREENVILLE... SPARTANBURG...GAFFNEY...ROCK HILL...ANDERSON...ABBEVILLE... LAURENS...UNION...CHESTER...GREENWOOD 609 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005 ...SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAUSING SOME PROBLEMS... JUST BEFORE 6 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS ACROSS UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA...WITH MORE COVERAGE ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA. IN THE RICH TROPICAL AIR MASS...THE SHOWERS AND STORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY...AND EVEN EXCESSIVE...RAINFALL. A FLASH FLOOD HAS OCCURRED IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST SWAIN COUNTY...AROUND WESSER. THE WESSER CREEK WAS REPORTED OUT OF ITS BANKS CLOSING ROADS AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING SOME HOMES. THIS FLASH FLOOD DEVELOPED FROM A VERY SMALL RAIN STORM THAT BECAME STATIONARY IN THE MOUNTAINS. OTHER SHOWERS TONIGHT MAY DO THE SAME THING...SO ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING MAY BE A THREAT IN OTHER LOCATIONS. AROUND CHARLOTTE...A LARGER COMPLEX OF SHOWERS AND STORMS EXTENDED FROM KANNAPOLIS SOUTH TO THE CITY. OFFICIALS AT MILLER CREEK AND INTERSTATE 85...AND AROUND UNCC...REPORTED SOME FUNNEL CLOUDS AROUND 545 PM...BUT NO DAMAGE WAS REPORTED. THE FUNNELS COULD BE A RAIN SHAFT...OR PERHAPS VAPOR FROM COLDER AIR ALOFT MIXING DOWN THROUGH THE MOIST TROPICAL AIR. THIS COMPLEX OF STORMS HAD BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY...AND A FLASH FLOOD THREAT COULD DEVELOP QUICKLY. THESE STORMS WILL BE MONITORED CLOSELY FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER AND FLASH FLOODING. THE WEATHER COULD QUICKLY CHANGE MOST ANYWHERE IN THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT...SO PEOPLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLY A FEW WARNINGS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR FLASH FLOODING. JONES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 5:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Swain | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 6:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Rowan | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.