Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2005, 9:35 PM EDT for Greenville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports 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 29, 2005, 9:35 PM EDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2005, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greenville County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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 29, 10:55 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Taylors, SC | STREET FLOODING IN BOTANY WOODS SUBDIVISION ON LAKE FAIRFIELD DR AND BERRY HILL RD |
| Jun 30, 12:00 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Taylors, SC | GREENVILLE COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS REPORTED THAT AIKEN CHAPEL ROAD AT THE ENOREE RIVER WAS TEMPORARILY CLOSED LATE LAST NIGHT DUE TO HIGH WATER FROM RAIN UPSTREAM. THE GAUGE INDICATED THAT THE STAGE REACHED 10 FEET ABOUT 11 PM AND FELL BELOW 10 FEET AROUND 630 AM |
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 2 storm reports to this flash flood warning; the first came 80 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 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
- 2160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KGSP 300136 FFWGSP SCC045-300430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 935 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1230 AM EDT * AT 928 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FALLING AT THE RATE OF ONE AND ONE HALF TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR OVER NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY NEAR PARIS MOUNTAIN. DUE TO RECENT RAINFALL...MOST OF THIS RAIN WILL RUN OFF INTO CREEKS...CAUSING RAPID RISES THAT WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. * THE STORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY ACROSS NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY...MAINLY ON THE SOUTH AND EAST SIDE OF PARIS MOUNTAIN. EXPECT RAPID RISES ON CREEKS THAT FLOW INTO THE ENOREE RIVER...IN PARTICULAR BEAVERDAM CREEK...BUCKHORN CREEK...AND MOUNTAIN CREEK. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA BETWEEN PARIS MOUNTAIN AND THE ENOREE RIVER...INCLUDING THE PEBBLE CREEK AREA AND ALONG STATE PARK ROAD. DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS...SEVERE URBAN FLOODING CAN OCCUR IN AREAS SUCH AS UNDERPASSES AND LOW AREAS WHERE WATER TENDS TO COLLECT. 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 3485 8235 3488 8223 3509 8221 3504 8244 $$ MOORE
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KGSP 300251 FFSGSP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1047 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005 SCC045-300430- GREENVILLE SC- 1047 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1230 AM EDT FOR NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY... AT 1045 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SHOWERS OVER NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY...BUT THEY WERE DIMINISHING IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY. CREEKS THAT CROSS STATE PARK ROAD NEAR PARIS MOUNTAIN WERE REPORTED AT BANKFULL...BUT NO FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED YET. HOWEVER...IT IS LIKELY THAT ADDITIONAL RUNOFF FROM EARLIER STORMS COULD PUSH SOME CREEKS OUT OF THEIR BANKS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. IF NO FLOODING IS REPORTED BY MIDNIGHT...THE WARNING WILL BE CANCELLED EARLY. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. LAT...LON 3485 8235 3488 8223 3509 8221 3504 8244 $$ MOORE
000 WGUS72 KGSP 300433 FFSGSP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1230 AM EDT THU JUN 30 2005 SCC045-300440- GREENVILLE SC- 1230 AM EDT THU JUN 30 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 1230 AM EDT... RAINFALL HAS MOVED OUT OF THE FLOOD WARNING AREA. NUMEROUS STREAMS AND CREEKS REACHED BANKFULL BUT NO FLOODING WAS OBSERVED. STREAM LEVELS WILL SLOWLY RECEDE OVERNIGHT. LAT...LON 3485 8235 3488 8223 3509 8221 3504 8244 $$ BURRUS
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 29, 2:22 PM EDT, 7 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:22 PM EDT, 7 hours 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 222 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY)... MOISTURE CONTINUES STREAMING UP FROM THE S-SW BUT AXIS OF DEEPEST MOISTURE IS E OF AREA. UPPER TROF IS MOVING E AND THE W PARTS OF CWA THAT GOT MORE SUN WILL CONTINUE TO SEE MORE CONVECTION INTO THIS EVE. MID AND UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE DECREASES OVERNIGHT WHILE LOW LEVELS REMAIN SATURATED WITH LIGHT WINDS AND WEAK SUBSIDENSE ...SO WILL GO WITH AREAS OF FOG TONIGHT. DIFLUENT FLOW ALOFT...ALONG WITH WEAK H5 SHORTWAVE MOVING IN LATE THU...SHOULD ENHANCE AFTN CONVECTION AND HAVE GONE WITH SOLID CHANCE POPS THU AFTN-EVE. COLD FRONT STILL FCST TO DIVE SE INTO CWA THU EVE INTO FRI...KEEPING A GOOD CHANCE OF TSTMS OVER THE AREA THROUGH FRI. FRONT PUSHES S OF AREA LATE FRI AND EXPECT SCT CONVECTION SAT AS HIGH PRES BUILDS TO THE N...SETTING UP AN EASTERLY UPSLOPE FLOW WITH A MOISTURE FEED OFF THE ATLANTIC. && .LONG TERM (SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO RIDGE IN FROM THE N-NE SUN-WED. THIS PUTS THE WHOLE AREA IN A MOIST ATLANTIC FEED WITH EASTERLY UPSLOPE FLOW THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. FLOW ALOFT IS LIGHT WITH AN H5 TROF OVER S CAN AND A HIGH OVER S FL...PUTTING CWA IN VERY WEAK ZONAL FLOW ALOFT WITH EXTREMELY WEAK WAVES TRANSLATING E. DIURNALLY DRIVEN LOW CHANCE POPS EACH DAY SEEMS THE MOST LOGICAL SOLUTION FOR THIS PATTERN. WILL KEEP 20-30 PERCENT CHANCE OF LATE DAY SHOWERS AND TSTMS THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD WITH BEST CHANCE ALONG EAST FACING UPSLOPE AREAS. && .AVIATION... DRIER MID-LEVEL AIR CONTINUES TO WORK ACROSS THE SRN APPALACHIANS FROM THE WEST. WITH SOMEWHAT LOWER LAYER RH VALUES...AND WITH BEST LLVL CONVERGENCE WELL TO THE NW AND E OF THE CWFA...CONVECTION IS NOT AS WIDESPREAD AS ON PREVIOUS DAYS. HOWEVER...THE AIRMASS IS STILL QUITE UNSTABLE...AND AS A SHORT WAVE APPROACHES FROM THE NW...THINK THAT IT IS BEST TO KEEP TEMPO GROUPS IN MOST OF THE TAFS FOR THE LATE AFTN. ONLY EXCEPTION IS KCLT. AS THEY ARE STILL WELL UNDER THE CI CANOPY...DON/T THINK ANYTHING WL DEVELOP THERE FOR SEVERAL MORE HRS. MOS IS NOT GOING FOR MUCH FOG OR LOW CLOUD DEVELOPMENT OVERNIGHT. HOWEVER...W/A LIGHT SW FLOW AND DWPTS NEAR 70...THINK THAT STRATUS IS LIKELY TO FORM...AND HAVE BROUGHT IFR CIGS INTO ALL TAF SITES BY 0800 UTC. THIS IS A LITTLE LATER THAN PREVIOUS NIGHTS...BUT WITH SW FLOW...THINK THAT STRATUS WL HOLD OFF A FEW HRS MORE. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...RB LONG TERM...RB AVIATION...BPM
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 5:50 AM EDT, 15 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 550 AM EDT WED JUN 29 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-301000- 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- 550 AM EDT WED JUN 29 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION ONCE AGAIN TODAY. THE COVERAGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO BE SOMEWHAT LESS THAN IN RECENT DAYS. HOWEVER...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY THROUGH INDEPENDENCE DAY. ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEFLY HEAVY RAINFALL ON MOIST GROUND...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL MOST LIKELY NOT BE NEEDED. HG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 7:27 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 727 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005 NCZ066-067-300030- POLK NC-RUTHERFORD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUTHERFORDTON...TRYON 727 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTH ACROSS THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE MCDOWELL COUNTY LINE WILL MOVE SOUTH AT 10 MPH ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY THROUGH 8 PM. IF THE LINE OF STORMS HOLDS TOGETHER...IT WILL REACH THE AREA FROM RUTHERFORDTON TO FOREST CITY AROUND 8 PM. THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL...AND VERY FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO FALL AT THE RATE OF ONE INCH PER HOUR. IF THE STORMS HOLD TOGETHER...THEY WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN POLK COUNTY BETWEEN 8 PM AND 830 PM...EVENTUALLY REACHING COLUMBUS AFTER 830 PM. RESIDENTS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL RUTHERFORD COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE STORMS AND TAKE SHELTER AS THEY PASS. MOORE
Local storm report, Jun 29, 8:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
800 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0630 PM TSTM WND DMG DYSARTSVILLE 35.60N 81.87W
06/29/2005 MCDOWELL NC COUNTY OFFICIAL
FIREMAN REPORTED TREES DOWN IN DYSARTSVILLE ON PINACLE
CHURCH ROAD AND OTHER SCATTERED LOCATIONS.
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.