Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2005, 7:02 AM EDT for Laurens County, South 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 28, 2005, 7:02 AM EDT (11:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2005, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Laurens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:04 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 928 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1414 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 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 281102 FFWGSP SCC059-281400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 702 AM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LAURENS COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1000 AM EDT * AT 702 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SERIES OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH ACROSS THE WESTERN END OF LAURENS COUNTY. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT THE DUNCAN CREEK BRIDGE NEAR GRAY COURT HAD BEEN WASHED OUT BY FLASH FLOODING. * ADDITIONAL SERIOUS FLOODING WILL LIKELY DEVELOP FROM HICKORY TAVERN TO GRAY COURT. 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. TURN AROUND AND FIND ANOTHER ROUTE. EVEN MODERN SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES CANNOT BE SAFELY DRIVEN THROUGH FLOOD WATERS. LAT...LON 3447 8228 3431 8208 3461 8188 3467 8209 $$ HG
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KGSP 281225 FFSGSP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 825 AM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005 SCC059-281400- LAURENS SC- 825 AM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 AM EDT FOR LAURENS COUNTY... AT 815 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE AREA...BUT BEGINNING TO TAPER OFF. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS SHOWN IN A SMALL AREA BETWEEN LAURENS AND WOODRUFF. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST...BUT WERE REFORMING OVER THE SAME SMALL AREA. OFFICIALS REPORTED ONE BRIDGE AROUND GRAY COURT WASHED OUT EARLIER THIS MORNING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3447 8228 3431 8208 3461 8188 3467 8209 $$ JONES
000 WGUS72 KGSP 281402 FFSGSP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1002 AM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005 SCC059-281412- LAURENS SC- 1002 AM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LAURENS COUNTY EXPIREDAT 1000 AM EDT... HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA FOR THE TIME BEING. LAT...LON 3447 8228 3431 8208 3461 8188 3467 8209 $$ 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 28, 2:42 AM EDT, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 2:42 AM EDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 242 AM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005 .SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT)... KGSP VAD WIND PROFILE IS EXHIBITING MORE OF A SOUTHERLY FLOW IN THE LOWER TROPOPHERE THAN THIS TIME YESTERDAY...BUT SHORT RANGE MODELS SUGGEST A BACKING TO SOUTHEAST AT THE LOWEST LEVELS THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. WITH ABUNDANT CONVECTION DEVELOPING ACROSS THE UPSTATE...THE HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY TRAIN ONCE AGAIN FROM GSP INTO THE BLUE RIDGE. WILL MOST LIKELY NEED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH THIS MORNING IN AREAS THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL YESTERDAY MORNING. MODEL SOUNDINGS AND TIME HEIGHT SECTIONS INDICATE VERY DEEP MOISTURE TODAY. LITTLE FORCING WILL THUS BE NEEDED FOR NUMEROUS TO WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LESS MID LEVEL DRY AIR...HOWEVER...SHOULD KEEP SEVERE POTENTIAL MUCH MORE LIMITED. THE AXIS OF DEEPER TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL SLOWLY SHIFT EAST THROUGH WEDNESDAY AND INTO THURSDAY...AS WEAK UPPER TROUGH AXIS FINALLY MOVES EAST OF THE AREA. LOW LEVELS WILL REMAIN FAIRLY MOIST IN SPITE OF THE WESTERLY FLOW ON THURSDAY. LESS CLOUDINESS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES AND INSTABILITY TO RECOVER. THE AREA COULD BE SET UP FOR STRONG MCS DEVELOPMENT UPSTREAM WHICH WOULD HIT THE MOUNTAINS HARDEST IN THE THU NIGHT TIME FRAME. GIVEN ALL OF THE ACTIVITY WITH THE TROPICAL MOISTURE EARLY IN THE PERIOD...AND THEN POSSIBLE MCS ACTIVITY LATE...WILL ISSUE SPS TO ADDRESS CUMULATIVE RAINFALL THREAT THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. && .LONG TERM (FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY)... GFS APPEARS TO BE THE MODEL OF CHOICE FOR THE MEDIUM RANGE...WHICH KEEPS A WEAK UPPER TROUGH OVER THE SRN APPALACHIANS INTO THE WEEKEND. A STRONG UPPER TROF MOVES E ACROSS N STATES LATE IN THE WEEK...WHICH REINFORCES THE TROF OVER THE E U.S. AS IT MOVES INTO IT. A COLD FRONT DROPS SE INTO N GA AND THE CAROLINAS FRI...THEN STALLS S OF THE AREA. WEAK SHORT WAVES MOVG THROUGH THE UPPER FLOW COULD INITIATE CONVECTION AT ANY TIME THROUGH THE PERIOD SO A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN KEPT IN THE GRIDDED FORECAST EACH DAY...WITH A TENDENCY FOR MORE ACTIVE CONVECTION DURING THE WARMER AFTERNOON AND EVENING TIMEFRAME. LOWERED SKY COVER AND ADJUSTED SOME DEW POINTS LOWER NE CORNER FOR BETTER FIT WITH NEIGHBORS. && .AVIATION... CONVECTION MOVING N IN TO KAND/KGSP AREA...AND WILL COVER IN TEMPO FIRST TWO HOURS. EXPECTING MVFR WITH TEMPO IFR IN RAIN MOISTED AIR MASS OVERNIGHT. EXPECT HEATING AND SOME VERTICAL MOTION IN SW FLOW ALOFT TO MIX VSBY/CIGS TO LOW VFR BY MID MORNING. TIMING INDIVIDUAL UPPER FEATURES WILL BE DIFFICULT AS MODELS DISAGREE ON FREQUENCY OF IMPULSES...SO FOR NOW WILL STICK WITH TIME OF BEST HEATING FOR TEMPO AFTERNOON CONVECTION... WHICH WORKED WELL YESTERDAY...AND IS WHEN GUIDANCE HAS HIGHEST POPS. WILL BRING IN LOW VFR FOG BY MID EVENING...ASSUMING ANOTHER ROUND OF AIR SOAKING PRECIPITATION ENDING BY LATE EVENING AND WINDS GOING LIGHT. && .HYDROLOGY... WILL ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVED 3 TO 9 INCHES OF RAIN YESTERDAY...FROM GSP TO AVL AND THE ADJACENT NC FOOTHILLS. FFG VALUES ARE GENERALLY IN THE 1 TO 2 INCH RANGE FOR 1 TO 3 HOUR RAINFALL DUE TO EXCESSIVE RAIN MONDAY MORNING. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR NCZ053-054-065>067 UNTIL NOON TUESDAY. SC...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SCZ003-006-007 UNTIL NOON TUESDAY. && SHORT TERM...HG LONG TERM...JAT AVIATION...JAT HYDROLOGY...HG
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 5:29 AM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 529 AM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-290930- 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- 529 AM EDT TUE JUN 28 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 THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL AFFECT THE REGION TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. WITH THE MOIST TROPICAL AIRMASS IN PLACE...RAINFALL RATES COULD BE SUFFICIENT TO PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE IN THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH...CAEFFAGSP...IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EDT FOR PARTS OF THE CENTRAL UPSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA...AND LOCATIONS NEAR THE BLUE RIDGE IN THE WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THROUGH WEDNESDAY UNTIL SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR MOVES IN FROM THE WEST ON THURSDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE SCATTERED IN NATURE FROM THURSDAY THROUGH THE INDEPENDENCE DAY HOLIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO RELAY REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:27 AM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 327 AM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-282100- 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 327 AM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005 ...THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AT TIMES THROUGH WEDNESDAY... A VERY MOIST...TROPICAL AIRMASS IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. NUMEROUS TO WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THIS AIRMASS AND MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS THE REGION TODAY...AND AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY. MANY LOCATIONS HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN THIS WEEK...AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL ON NEARLY SATURATED GROUND COULD LEAD TO FLOODING PROBLEMS AT SOME POINT. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE RAINFALL AT RATES IN EXCESS OF AN INCH PER HOUR. GIVEN THE RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL...THESE RATES WILL LIKELY PRODUCE RAPID RISES ON STREAMS AND CREEKS AND CONSIDERABLE STANDING AND RUNNING WATER IN LOW SPOTS. AS THE LOCATIONS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE HEAVY RAINFALL BECOME BETTER DEFINED...FLASH FLOOD WATCHES OR WARNINGS COULD BE ISSUED AT ANY TIME. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY LIGHTNING AND BRIEFLY GUSTY WINDS. HOWEVER...THE MAIN HAZARD WILL BE THE EFFECTS OF THE HEAVY RAINFALL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ALL HAZARDS FOR THE LATEST UPDATES. GERAPETRITIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 5:38 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 5:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in South 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.