Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2005, 5:03 AM EDT for Henderson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 6 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 27, 2005, 5:03 AM EDT (09:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2005, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Henderson County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:06 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 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 730 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KGSP 270903 FFWGSP NCC089-271500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 503 AM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HENDERSON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1100 AM EDT * AT 459 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FLETCHER... EDNEYVILLE...AND HENDERSONVILLE BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3518 8256 3522 8237 3549 8230 3543 8271 $$ 07
4 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KGSP 271000 FFSGSP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 600 AM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 NCC089-271500- HENDERSON NC- 600 AM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1100 AM EDT FOR HENDERSON COUNTY... AT 550 AM EDT...COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. FLOODING WAS ESPECIALLY SERIOUS ALONG HIGHWAY 64 NEAR BAT CAVE. ALTHOUGH RAINFALL HAS DECREASED...RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN EARLIER THIS MORNING WILL CONTINUE FOR SOME TIME...CAUSING STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RISE FURTHER. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BAT CAVE AND EDNEYVILLE. REMEMBER THAT MOST FLOOD FATALITIES ARE THE RESULT OF DRIVING INTO FLOODED STREETS...ROADS...OR STREAMS...OR OCCUR WHEN CHILDREN PLAY IN OR NEAR STORM DRAINS OR STREAMS. LAT...LON 3518 8256 3522 8237 3549 8230 3543 8271 $$ 07
000 WGUS72 KGSP 271112 FFSGSP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 710 AM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 NCC089-271500- HENDERSON NC- 710 AM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1100 AM EDT FOR HENDERSON COUNTY... AT 705 AM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING OVER MANY PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY. ALTHOUGH RAINFALL HAS DECREASED...RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAIN WILL KEEP STREAMS AND CREEKS OUT OF THEIR BANKS FOR SEVERAL HOURS. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FLETCHER... EDNEYVILLE...ETOWAH...AND THE SOUTH END OF HENDERSONVILLE. 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 3518 8256 3522 8237 3549 8230 3543 8271 $$ 07
000 WGUS72 KGSP 271256 FFSGSP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 855 AM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 NCC089-271500- HENDERSON NC- 855 AM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1100 AM EDT FOR HENDERSON COUNTY... AT 835 AM EDT...THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT MUD CREEK WAS CRESTING. RADAR SHOWED THAT HEAVY RAINFALL HAD MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. MANY SMALL STREAMS AROUND THE HEADWATERS OF THE ROCKY BROAD RIVER HAVE FLOODED...AND WILL BEGIN TO RECEDE SOON. MOST PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED THIS MORNING HAVE BEEN RELATED TO PEOPLE DRIVING VEHICLES INTO FLOODED SECTIONS OF ROADS. IT IS UNSAFE TO DRIVE INTO FLOOD WATER...AND MOST FLOOD DEATHS ARE A RESULT OF JUST THAT. EVEN VEHICLES SUCH AS MODERN SPORTS UTILITY VEHICLES CANNOT SAFELY BE DRIVEN INTO FLOOD WATER. HIGH WATER WILL LINGER FOR SEVERAL HOURS THIS MORNING. THE FRENCH BROAD RIVER WAS RISING...AND SOME FLOODING WILL LIKELY DEVELOP AROUND FLETCHER. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3518 8256 3522 8237 3549 8230 3543 8271 $$ JONES
000 WGUS72 KGSP 271457 FFSGSP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1057 AM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 NCC089-271507- HENDERSON NC- 1057 AM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR HENDERSON COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1100 AM EDT... WATER WAS BEGINNING TO RECEDE...AND HEAVY RAINFALL HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA FOR THE TIME BEING. LAT...LON 3518 8256 3522 8237 3549 8230 3543 8271 $$ JONES
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 27, 3:19 AM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:19 AM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 319 AM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 .SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... RECENT SURFACE ANALYSES DEPICT AN INVERTED TROUGH AXIS DRIFTING WESTWARD FROM THE SOUTHEAST COAST. THE KGSP VAD WIND PROFILE HAS DEEP SOUTHEAST FLOW EXTENDING FROM THE SFC TO AROUND 500 MB...IN AN AIRMASS WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES JUST BELOW TWO INCHES. THE RESULT HAS BEEN CONVECTION AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE UPSLOPE PREFERRED REGIONS...AND THIS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING UNTIL 850 MB FLOW VEERS SOUTH AND THE FOCUS SHIFTS WESTWARD TOWARD THE HIGHER TERRAIN. THE SHORT RANGE MODELS DIVERGE SLIGHTLY ON THE DEGREE OF RESURGENT UPSLOPE THROUGH THE DAY...AND THE HANDLING OF AN H5 VORT LOBE WHICH SHOULD BRUSH THE MOUNTAINS DURING PEAK HEATING THIS AFTERNOON. BUT WITH SUCH DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE IN PLACE...LIKELY POPS IN AND NEAR THE MTNS SEEM A GOOD BET THROUGH TONIGHT. AS THE UPPER LOW IN THE LOWER MS VALLEY LIFTS NORTH AND PHASES BACK INTO THE NRN STREAM THROUGH TUE NIGHT...BOTH THE NAM AND GFS SPIN UP A TROPICAL LOOKING 850 MB CIRCULATION CENTER IN THE NRN GULF OF MEXICO. WHETHER THIS FEATURE IS REAL OR NOT...A TROPICAL CONNECTION WILL PERSIST AND THE SOUTHERLY UPSLOPE SHOULD BE ALL THE TRIGGERING THAT IS NECESSARY TO WARRANT HIGH CHC TO LOW LIKELY POPS THROUGH THE SHORT RANGE. && .LONG TERM (WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY)... 850 MB FLOW FINALLY STARTS TO BECOME WESTERLY BY THURSDAY...WITH BEST PRECIPITATION CHANCES SHIFTING SHARPLY BACK TOWARD THE TN BORDER. PREVIOUS IDEA OF A BOUNDARY LAYING OVER FROM THE NORTHWEST...WITH AN ACTIVE PERIOD OF UPSTREAM MCS ACTIVITY THROUGH THE LONG RANGE...SEEMS REASONABLE. NO CHANGES WILL BE MADE PENDING MORNING COLLABORATION. && .AVIATION... SCATTERED CONVECTION IN DEEP SE FLOW WANING OVER MIDLANDS...ALL WILL ALLOW ACTIVITY TO TAPER OFF EARLY THIS MORNING...WITH CIGS/VSBY LOWERING IN RAIN MOISTENED AIR. BY MID MORNING LOW VFR VSBY/CIGS AS WIND INCREASES SLIGHTLY FROM NE. INSTABILITY AND SOME OMEGA IN GFS SUPPORT BEST CHACNE OF PRECIPITATION LATE AFTERNOON WHEN GUIDANCE HAS HIGHEST POPS. WILL CARRY TEMPO MVFR CONDITIONS IN SHOWERS...WITH THUNDER FAR S AND E WHERE INSTABILITY GREATEST. WIND DECREASES AND VEERS TO SSE MID EVENING...WHEN PREVAILING MVFR VSBY/CIG WARRANTED. && .HYDROLOGY... PLAN ON ISSUING AN ESF TO HIGHLIGHT THE HEAVY RAIN/FLOODING POTENTIAL THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SPECIAL ATTENTION WILL BE DRAWN TO THE SW CWFA WHERE UPSLOPE ENHANCEMENT WILL BRING THE GREATEST FLOODING THREAT. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...HG LONG TERM...HG AVIATION...JAT HYDROLOGY...HG
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 5:53 AM EDT, 23 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 553 AM EDT SUN JUN 26 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-271000- 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- 553 AM EDT SUN JUN 26 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NUMEROUS SHOWERS ACROSS THE REGION MAY PRODUCE AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM LATE TODAY. THE SHOWERS COULD BE HEAVY IN A FEW LOCATIONS...WITH MAXIMUM RAINFALL TOTALS NEARING AN INCH IN SPOTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ADDITIONAL SHOWERS...AND A GREATER NUMBER OF THUNDERSTORMS...ARE EXPECTED ON MONDAY. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING COULD BE STRONG...PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. A FEW POCKETS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN MOST LOCATIONS THROUGH THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE NEEDED. HG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 7:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 7:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Madison | 4 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.