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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2006, 8:49 PM EDT for Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 116 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 4, 2006, 8:49 PM EDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2006, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rowan County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 9:10 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 3 Nw Enochville, NC | SPOTTER REPORTS FLOODING ALONG WRIGHT ROAD WITH SIX INCHES OF WATER INTO ADJACENT CORNFIELD. |
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 one storm report to this flash flood warning; the first came 21 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 2274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 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 050051 FFWGSP NCC159-050245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 849 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN ROWAN COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1045 PM EDT * AT 849 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF LANDIS. RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CHINA GROVE. 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. TO REPORT HIGH WATER...FLOODING...MUDSLIDES...LANDSLIDES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH OUR AUTOMATED REPORTING SYSTEM...CALL OUR TOLL FREE NUMBER...1 8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2. LAT...LON 3547 8080 3547 8058 3565 8058 3565 8080 $$ HG
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KGSP 050133 FFSGSP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 930 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2006 NCC159-050245- ROWAN NC- 930 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2006 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM EDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN ROWAN COUNTY... AT 930 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM PREVIOUSLY PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE COUNTY HAD LARGELY DISSIPATED. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN IREDELL COUNTY MAY DRIFT OVER THE WARNED AREA OVER THE NEXT HOUR. RADAR INDICATES THAT NEARLY 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN LOCATIONS JUST NORTHWEST OF ENOCHVILLE IN THE PAST TWO HOURS. FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ALONG WRIGHT ROAD IN THE VICINITY OF PARK CREEK. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. TO REPORT HIGH WATER...FLOODING...MUDSLIDES...LANDSLIDES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH OUR AUTOMATED REPORTING SYSTEM...CALL OUR TOLL FREE NUMBER...1 8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2. LAT...LON 3547 8080 3547 8058 3565 8058 3565 8080 $$ HG
000 WGUS72 KGSP 050244 FFSGSP FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1041 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2006 NCC159-050251- ROWAN NC- 1041 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2006 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 1045 PM EDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN ROWAN COUNTY... AT 1041 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A COUPLE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE INTERSTATE 85 CORRIDOR IN ROWAN COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...HOWEVER...THEY WERE NOT AFFECTING THE SAME STREAM BASINS WEST OF ENOCHVILLE WHERE THE EARLIER FLOODING WAS REPORTED. DEEP STANDING WATER COULD STILL OCCUR ON AREA ROADWAYS...BUT ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE ON SCHEDULE. TO REPORT HIGH WATER...FLOODING...MUDSLIDES...LANDSLIDES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH OUR AUTOMATED REPORTING SYSTEM...CALL OUR TOLL FREE NUMBER...1 8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2. LAT...LON 3547 8080 3547 8058 3565 8058 3565 8080 $$ HG
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 Aug 4, 6:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 6:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 659 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2006 .SHORT TERM /REST OF TONIGHT/... UPDATE WILL REMOVE HEAT ADVISORY HEADLINES FROM ZONE FORECASTS. CONVECTION IS SHIFTING EASTWARD INTO THE PIEDMONT THIS EVENING AS BOUNDARY MAKES SLOW PROGRESS SOUTHEAST. WILL PUSH HIGHER LATE EVENING RAIN CHANCES INTO THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 223 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2006/ SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/... LINES OF SHRA AND TSRA HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG AND AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT OVER KY AND TN. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD REACH THE NC/TN LINE BY 21Z. I EXPECTED THE CONVECTION WILL BREAK APART OVER THE CENTRAL MTNS...BUT SCT ACTIVITY SHOULD SURVIVE TO THE FOOTHILLS EARLY THIS EVENING. A SECONDARY SECTION OF SHRA AND TSRA HAS STARTED TO SPREAD ACROSS THE MIDLANDS OF SC. THE MIDLAND ACTIVITY MAY SPREAD INTO THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE CWA BETWEEN 21Z AND 0Z THIS EVENING. FORECAST SOUNDINGS INDICATE ENOUGH DRY AIR IN THE MID LEVELS TO SUPPORT A FEW SVR WIND EVENTS. LARGE HAIL IN NOT FAVORED DUE TO MARGINAL CAPE AND HIGH FRZ LEVELS. INSTABILITY WILL QUICKLY POOL ACROSS THE CWA SAT AFTERNOON. THE INSTABILITY COMBINED WITH WEAK ISENTROPIC LIFT AND A H5 VORT WILL RESULT IN EVEN COVERAGE SAT AFTERNOON AND EVENING. I WILL ADVERTISE COVERAGE SIMILAR TO THE HIGH CHC COVERAGE INDICATED BY MOS. A FLAT UPPER RIDGE REMAINS OVER THE SOUTHEAST THROUGH SUNDAY...THEN RETROGRADES TOWARD THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY ON MONDAY AS AN UPPER TROUGH SETS UP ALONG THE EAST COAST. MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH A STALLED SURFACE FRONT PERSISTS OVER OUR AREA SUNDAY AND MONDAY...WHILE ANOTHER FRONT DROPS SOUTH TOWARD OUR AREA LATE MONDAY. MODEL TIME HEIGHT PLOTS SHOW DEEP OMEGA REMAINING INTO SATURDAY NIGHT...BUT WITH LITTLE FORCING ALOFT...POPS WILL BE KEPT IN THE HIGH CHANCE RANGE. WITH THE BOUNDARY REMAINING IN THE AREA...CHANCE POPS WILL BE MAINTAINED AROUND THE CLOCK...WITH RELATIVE LULLS AT NIGHT. TEMPERATURES WILL MODERATE TO NEAR NORMAL VALUES AS HEIGHTS FALL AND CLOUD COVER REMAIN RELATIVELY HIGH NEAR THE FRONT. LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ADVERTISE SOME DEGREE OF EAST COAST TROUGHING AT THE UPPER LEVELS. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE NORTH ON TUESDAY... PRECEDED BY WARMER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES. THIS FRONT WILL STALL ACROSS OUR AREA BY WEDNESDAY...ACTING AS A FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR PRECIPITATION THROUGH THURSDAY...WITH TEMPERATURES CLOSER TO NORMAL VALUES. BY FRIDAY THE FRONT DISSIPATES...WITH A RETURN TO WARMER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES. AVIATION... ONCE AGAIN...CONVECTION WILL BE THE MAIN AVIATION CONCERN FOR THE FIRST 12 HRS. COVERAGE SHOULD REMAIN THE HIGHEST OVER THE MTNS THIS AFTERNOON WITH A SECONDARY MAX OVER THE EASTERN PIEDMONT THIS EVENING. MTN SHRA AND TSRA SHOULD BEGIN TO ERODE BY 23Z AS INITIAL BAND OF CONVECTION MOVES EAST. CONVECTION OVER THE PIEDMONT MAY LINGER UNTIL 6Z. BASED ON THIS MORNING/S OBS...I INCLUDED A MENTION OF FOG AT KAND AND KAVL. AFTER 13Z...TERMINALS SHOULD BECOME VFR. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...HEAT ADVISORY FOR GAZ026-028-029 UNTIL 7 PM FRIDAY. NC...HEAT ADVISORY FOR NCZ071-082 UNTIL 7 PM FRIDAY. SC...HEAT ADVISORY FOR SCZ006>014-019 UNTIL 7 PM FRIDAY. && SHORT TERM...HG
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 6:00 AM EDT, 14 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 600 AM EDT FRI AUG 4 2006 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-051000- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER- IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE- CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON- TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG- CABARRUS-UNION NC-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL- BURKE MOUNTAINS-GREATER BURKE-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL- RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS- EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS- GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE- LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 600 AM EDT FRI AUG 4 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE AREA ONCE AGAIN TODAY. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. PLEASE SEE THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CAESPSGSP FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SCATTERED...MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA FOR MOST OF THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LANE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 4, 7:51 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
751 PM EDT FRI AUG 04 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0745 PM TSTM WND DMG 6 NE WALHALLA 34.83N 82.99W
08/04/2006 OCONEE SC PUBLIC
A COUPLE OF TREES DOWN NEAR RESIDENCE AT KEOWEE
KEY...NEAR HWY 183.
&&
GMSLocal storm report, Aug 4, 8:11 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
811 PM EDT FRI AUG 04 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0555 PM HAIL 2 NE CRUSO 35.44N 82.79W
08/04/2006 E0.75 INCH HAYWOOD NC TRAINED SPOTTER
SPOTTER REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL.
&&
HGLocal storm report, Aug 4, 8:15 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
815 PM EDT FRI AUG 04 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0810 PM TSTM WND DMG TOCCOA 34.58N 83.32W
08/04/2006 STEPHENS GA EMERGENCY MNGR
TWO TREES DOWN IN TOCCOA...AND ONE IN RIDGEVIEW HEIGHTS.
&&
44Local storm report, Aug 4, 8:31 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
831 PM EDT FRI AUG 04 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0823 PM HAIL TOCCOA 34.58N 83.32W
08/04/2006 M0.75 INCH STEPHENS GA EMERGENCY MNGR
PENNY-SIZED HAIL IN TOCCOA.
&&
44Local storm report, Aug 4, 8:42 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
842 PM EDT FRI AUG 04 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0815 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 W ENOCHVILLE 35.52N 80.68W
08/04/2006 ROWAN NC TRAINED SPOTTER
UTILITY LINES DOWN ON WRIGHT RD. PERSON STRUCK BY
LIGHTNING ON CANNON FARM RD.
&&
GMSLocal storm report, Aug 4, 8:47 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
847 PM EDT FRI AUG 04 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0815 PM TSTM WND DMG TOCCOA 34.58N 83.32W
08/04/2006 STEPHENS GA TRAINED SPOTTER
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN TOCCOA. TREE FELL ON HOUSE ON
POPLAR ST. LOCALIZED ROAD FLOODING ON HWY 123...CURAHEE
ST.
&&
GMSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 27 min |
| Aug 5, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 60 min |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.