1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Sep 9, 2:15 AM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 315 AM EDT THU SEP 9 2004 .SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY)... WITH REMNANTS OF FRANCES FINALLY OUT OF THE PICTURE...TODAY WILL BE A WELL DESERVED RESPITE AND A CHANCE TO DRY OUT AND CLEAN UP. ONLY A FEW MINOR CONCERNS TO DEAL WITH. MODELS SHOW WEAK NW FLOW UPSLOPE LASTING INTO THE AFTERNOON. WITH LOW CLOUDS AND SOME DRIZZLE IN THE MOUNTAINS EARLY THIS MORNING...WILL RETAIN A SLIGHT CHANCE POP THERE. EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS...MODELS SHOW WEAK LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND WEAK UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE ACROSS THE PIEDMONT LATE IN THE DAY. HOWEVER...INSTABILITY WILL BE LACKING AS DRYING ALOFT AND SUBSIDENCE INVERSION BUILD IN. GIVEN THE FRONT IN THE AREA...WILL RETAIN A SLIGHT CHANCE POP IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS THE PIEDMONT. DOWNSLOPE FLOW DEVELOPING IN THE LEE OF THE MOUNTAINS SHOULD CLEAR OUT THE LOW CLOUDS UNTIL CU DEVELOP IN THE AFTERNOON. TEMPS HAVE BEEN NUDGED UPWARD A DEGREE OR SO EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS TO TAKE MORE SUN INTO ACCOUNT. THE REMAINDER OF THE SHORT TERM IS RELATIVELY BENIGN AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES BY TO THE NORTH. JUST A FEW TWEAKS HERE AND THERE...MAINLY TO TEMPS BASED ON RECENT GUIDANCE. && .LONG TERM (FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... MODELS INDICATE THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME EASTERLY FLOW DEVELOPING AT LOW LEVELS ON SATURDAY. THAT BEING THE CASE...THINK THERE WILL BE ENOUGH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINING OVER THE MOUNTAINS ALONG WITH WEAK INSTABILITY FOR DIFFERENTIAL HEATING TO TRIGGER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE...NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE MEDIUM RANGE. THE EVENTUAL FATE OF IVAN IS VERY MUCH A CONCERN FOR THE DAY 7 TIME FRAME GIVEN THE MOST RECENT HPC PROJECTION...BUT UNCERTAINTY REMAINS HIGH. NO CHANGES WILL BE MADE TO THE CURRENT DRY FORECAST THAT WAS COLLABORATED BY THE PREVIOUS SHIFT...BUT IF THE GUIDANCE TRACK CONTINUES...EXPECT SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO BE MADE. && .AVIATION... CLOUD SHIELD BEGINNING TO BREAK OFF IN THE LEE OF THE MOUNTAINS AND PUSHING EAST WITH DOWNSLOPE FLOW. AREAS FROM KGVL TO KAND HAVE BEEN OBSERVING SKC CONDITIONS OVER THE PAST SEVERAL REPORTS. CLEARING CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO SWING EAST OVERNIGHT...REACHING KCLT BY 12Z ACCORDING TO THE ETA. WINDS WILL WEAKEN A BIT THROUGH SUNRISE AND FOG/LOW CLOUD POTENTIAL CERTAINLY LOOKS BETTER FOR PERIODS... WILL HANDLE WITH TEMPOS. AFTER SUNRISE...MORNING CU WILL DEVELOP AND SLOWLY RISE TO AROUND 4-5 KFT. WINDS WILL VEER IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT...EXPECTED TO REMAIN LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO 10 KTS. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM/LONG TERM...PM AVIATION...NED
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 554 AM EDT THU SEP 9 2004 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-101000- ABBEVILLE SC-ALEXANDER NC-ANDERSON SC-AVERY NC-BUNCOMBE NC-BURKE NC- CABARRUS NC-CALDWELL NC-CATAWBA NC-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER SC- CLEVELAND NC-DAVIE NC-ELBERT GA-FRANKLIN GA-GASTON NC-GRAHAM NC- GREATER GREENVILLE SC-GREATER OCONEE SC-GREATER PICKENS SC- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC-GREENWOOD SC-HABERSHAM GA-HART GA-HAYWOOD NC- HENDERSON NC-IREDELL NC-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MACON NC-MADISON NC- MCDOWELL NC-MECKLENBURG NC-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC-POLK NC-RABUN GA-ROWAN NC- RUTHERFORD NC-SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SPARTANBURG SC-STEPHENS GA- SWAIN NC-TRANSYLVANIA NC-UNION SC-UNION NC-YANCEY NC-YORK SC- 554 AM EDT THU SEP 9 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... MAIN STEM RIVER FLOODING CONTINUES AT MANY FORECAST POINTS ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON CREST FORECASTS...SEE THE FLOOD STATEMENTS ISSUED AT 437 AM THURSDAY AND AT 1040 PM WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER IT IS WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITIES THAT THE EVENTUAL REMNANTS OF HURRICANE IVAN COULD AFFECT THE WESTERN CAROLINAS DURING THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. PLEASE REFER TO ADVISORIES FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER FOR MORE INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. MOORE
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
As water from the previous day's heavy rainfall continued to work its way through the Yadkin River system, Hunting Creek flooded near its junction with the South Yadkin. A farm was flooded, and a number of cattle were stranded and lost.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, September 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5423227.