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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 31, 2005Habersham County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Mar 31, 2005, 11:55 AM EST for Habersham County, Georgia. 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: Mar 31, 2005, 11:55 AM EST (16:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2005, 2:45 PM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Habersham County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:58 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS52 KGSP 311653
FFWGSP
GAC137-311945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1155 AM EST THU MAR 31 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HABERSHAM COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 245 PM EST

* AT 1139 AM EST...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH    
  FLOODING DEVELOPING IN THE COUNTY.  ROADS WERE FLOODING AND THE    
  RIVER WAS RISING QUICKLY NEAR CLARKESVILLE.  HEAVY RAINFALL WILL   
  TAPER OFF FOR A WHILE...BUT RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER HEAVY RAIN     
  WILL CONTINUE.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO            
  BATESVILLE...CLARKESVILLE...MOUNT AIRY...AND HOLLYWOOD.

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. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS 
FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.

LAT...LON 3457 8366 3455 8341 3475 8349 3478 8366

$$
JONES

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS72 KGSP 311806
FFSGSP

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
107 PM EST THU MAR 31 2005

GAC137-311945-
HABERSHAM GA-
107 PM EST THU MAR 31 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 245 PM EST FOR HABERSHAM 
COUNTY...

AT 1PM EST...HEAVY RAINFALL HAD TAPERED OFF OVER THE COUNTY.  
HOWEVER...RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUE TO CAUSE 
STREAMS TO RISE. SOME ROADS MAY ALSO BE FLOODED IN LOW AREAS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

LAT...LON 3457 8366 3455 8341 3475 8349 3478 8366

$$
JONES

000 
WGUS72 KGSP 311938
FFSGSP

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
236 PM EST THU MAR 31 2005

GAC137-311945-
HABERSHAM GA-
239 PM EST THU MAR 31 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR HABERSHAM COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 245 
PM EST...

AT 230 PM EST...HEAVY RAINFALL HAD ENDED OVER THE COUNTY...AND NO 
NEW FLOODING HAD BEEN REPORTED.

LAT...LON 3457 8366 3455 8341 3475 8349 3478 8366

$$
JONES

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.