Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Feb 16, 1990, 12:52 PM EST for Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 1990, 12:52 PM EST (17:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1990, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cleveland 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 344 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 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 KCLT 161752
FFWCLT
NCC045-162200-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
1252 PM EST FRI FEB 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLOTTE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA
...CLEVELAND
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS IN CLEVELAND COUNTY REPORTED THE WATER
LEVEL IN NUMEROUS STREAMS TO BE AT OR NEAR BANKFULL. EARTHEN DAMS...
THOSE WITH DIRT BREASTS... ARE FULL. SHOULD THESE DAMS OVERFLOW
EROSION OF THE BREAST COULD QUICKLY OCCUR ALLOWING TREMENDOUS AMOUNTS
OF WATER TO MOVE RAPIDLY DOWNSTREAM.
AT 1245 WEATHER RADAR SHOWED RAIN COVERING ALL OF CLEVELAND COUNTY.
THE HEAVIER RAIN WAS OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN ONE THIRD OF THE COUNTY.
HOWEVER... A VERY LARGE AREA OF HEAVIER RAIN WAS ALSO APPROACHING
CLEVELAND COUNTY FROM UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. SO HEAVY RAIN AND
FLOODING IS LIKELY THROUGHOUT CLEVELAND COUNTY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION AND EVERYONE IN CLEVELAND COUNTY MUST
IMMEDIATELY PREPARE FOR FLOODING.
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.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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 7:15 AM EST, 5 hours 37 minutes before
SCZ001>004-161400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 715 AM EST FRI FEB 16 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 100 PM EST FOR ALL UPSTATE COUNTIES... AT 710 AM EST WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATHENS AND ATLANTA HAVE ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR SOME OF THESE STORMS. THERE WAS SOME WIND DAMAGE REPORTED EARLIER THIS MORNING FROM THIS LINE. BASED ON THE CURRENT MOVEMENT...PART OF THIS LINE COULD AFFECT WESTERN UPSTATE COUNTIES /OCONEE AND ANDERSON/ BY ABOUT 800 AM. ANOTHER PART OF THE LINE COULD MOVE TOWARD ABBEVILLE AND GREENWOOD COUNTIES A LITTLE LATER THIS MORNING. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. WAJ
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 8:14 AM EST, 4 hours 38 minutes before
SCZ001>004-161500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 815 AM EST FRI FEB 16 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 100 PM EST INCLUDES ALL UPSTATE COUNTIES... AT 810 AM EST WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD ANDERSON COUNTY. BASED ON THE CURRENT MOVEMENT THESE STORMS SHOULD CROSS INTO SOUTH CAROLINA BETWEEN 830 AM AND 900 AM. ALTHOUGH THE ENTIRE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS WEAKENED SOMEWHAT... REDEVELOPMENT COULD OCCUR QUICKLY. SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE WAS REPORTED WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS EARLIER IN GEORGIA. OTHERWISE...RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF THE UPSTATE AT 810 AM. THE THREAT OF SOME FLOODING WILL INCREASE AS THE RAIN CONTINUES...ESPECIALLY IN THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS WHERE THE LARGEST RAINFALL AMOUNTS /UP TO 2 INCHES/ HAVE BEEN REPORTED SO FAR. WAJ
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 12:37 PM EST, 15 minutes before
SCZ001>004-161900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 1235 PM EST FRI FEB 16 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR THE THE SOUTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS...WHICH INCLUDES OCONEE...ANDERSON...PICKENS... GREENVILLE...SPARTANBURG...CHEROKEE...AND ABBEVILLE COUNTIES. AT 1230 THIS AFTERNOON A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM CENTRAL GEORGIA INTO THE SOUTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT...NEAR GREENWOOD AND CLINTON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 45 MILES AN HOUR...WITH HEAVY RAIN... FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WIND. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 12:49 PM EST, 3 minutes before
SCZ001>004-161930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 1245 PM EST FRI FEB 16 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 6 PM FOR PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT...WHICH INCLUDES UNION...LAURENS...AND GREENWOOD COUNTIES... AT 1245 THIS AFTERNOON A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH THE PIEDMONT COUNTIES...AND EXTENDED FROM MCCORMICK...TO NINETY SIX...TO WHITMIRE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 45 MILES AN HOUR AND PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WIND. A BROAD AREA OF HEAVY RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES ACROSS THE UPSTATE AREAS OF THE PALMETTO STATE...WITH LITTLE CHANGE INDICATED FOR THE NEXT TWO TO THREE HOURS. MUSGROVE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 6:02 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 3 hr |
| 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, 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.