Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Feb 16, 1990, 6:02 AM EST for Cherokee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 1990, 6:02 AM EST (11:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1990, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, NC
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAVL 161102
FFWAVL
NCC039-161400-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
602 AM EST FRI FEB 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
CHEROKEE
RADIO STATION WKRK IN MURPHY REPORTS AROUND FOUR INCHES OF RAIN
OVERNIGHT. ADDITINAL HEAVY RAIN THIS MORNING WILL RESULT IN WIDE-
SPREAD FLOODING UNTIL 9AM.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED
QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES, DIPS OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. pNEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM, EVEN A SMALL ONE,
ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
ASWhat 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 5:10 AM EST, 52 minutes before
NCZ-009-010-011-012-161300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 510 AM EST FRI FEB 16 1990 ...HEAVY RAIN ACROSS WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA THIS MORNING... RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES WERE COMMON OVERNIGHT. THE HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS THIS FRIDAY MORNING. SMALL STREAMS MAY QUICKLY GET OUT OF THIER BANKS RESULTING IN FLOODING. STREETS AND HIGHWAYS WITH POOR DRAINAGE RISK GETTING WATER COVERED.) PERSONS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT AND PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DRIVERS THIS MORNING SHOULD BE ON THE WATCH FOR WATER COVERED ROADS. AS
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 5:13 AM EST, 49 minutes before
NCZ-009-010-011-012-161300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 510 AM EST FRI FEB 16 1990 ...HEAVY RAIN ACROSS WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA THIS MORNING... RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES WERE COMMON OVERNIGHT. THE HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS THIS FRIDAY MORNING. SMALL STREAMS MAY QUICKLY GET OUT OF THIER BANKS RESULTING IN FLOODING. STREETS AND HIGHWAYS WITH POOR DRAINAGE RISK GETTIN/G WATER COVERED. A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE MOUNTAINS TODAY. PERSONS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT AND PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DRIVERS THIS MORNING SHOULD BE ON THE WATCH FOR WATER COVERED ROADS. AS
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 5:32 AM EST, 30 minutes before
SCZ001-002-161300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 530 AM EST FRI FEB 16 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN BEGIN TO AFFECT SOUTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS...MORE ON THE WAY... AT 525 AM EST WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS JUST MOVING INTO THE SOUTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN SECTIONS OF OCONEE...PICKENS...GREENVILLE...AND SPARTANBURG COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE JUST THE BEGINNING. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN CAUSING SOME SEVERE WEATHER AND SOME RATHER SERIOUS FLASH FLOOD PROBLEMS ACROSS PARTS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHERN GEORGIA OVERNIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE ACROSS THE UPSTATE TODAY...AND THEURE IS ALSO POTENTIAL FOR LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN. THEREFORE...PEOPLE IN THE UPSTATE SHOULD KEEP ALERT FOR LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. WAJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 7:05 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 7:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Graham, Macon | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 7:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 7:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 9:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 9:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | McDowell | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 10:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 12:52 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 4 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:06 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.