Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 2005, 1:30 PM EDT for Alexander County, North 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
- Jul 7, 2005, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2005, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Alexander County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:31 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KGSP 071731 FFWGSP NCC003-072030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 130 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ALEXANDER COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 126 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. SEVERAL ROADS WERE FLOODED IN THE TAYLORSVILLE AREA. MORE HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE COUNTY THE NEXT FEW HOURS. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TAYLORSVILLE AND ELLENDALE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. LAT...LON 3582 8131 3584 8109 3601 8102 3599 8131 $$ PAT
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KGSP 072028 FFSGSP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 427 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2005 NCC003-072037- ALEXANDER NC- 427 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ALEXANDER COUNTY EXPIRES AT 430 PM EDT... THE HEAVIEST BANDS OF RAIN HAVE MOVED EAST AND NO FLOODING HAD BEEN REPORTED TO THE COUNTY AS OF 415 PM EDT. HOWEVER...SOME STREAMS COULD BE RUNNING VERY HIGH AND ADDITIONAL MODERATE RAINFALL WILL OCCUR. A NEW WARNING COULD BE REQUIRED A LITTLE LATER. LAT...LON 3582 8131 3584 8109 3601 8102 3599 8131 $$ JONES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 6:41 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 37 min |
| Jul 7, 8:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 67 min |
| Jul 7, 8:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Iredell | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 10:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Polk | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 11:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 1:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Alexander | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 1:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Iredell | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 1:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Iredell | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie | 27 min |
| Jul 7, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 3:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 13 min |
| Jul 7, 4:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Davie, Rowan | 3 hr |
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.