Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Feb 16, 1990, 2:31 PM EST for Greenville County, Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 1990, 2:31 PM EST (19:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1990, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greenville County, SC, Pickens County, SC
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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 12:37 PM EST, 1 hour 54 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, 1 hour 42 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
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 2:02 PM EST, 29 minutes before
SCZ001>004-162000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 200 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 2 OCLOCK THIS AFTERNOON MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING THROUGHOUT THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT AREAS OF SOUTH CAROLINA ...WITH LIGHT RAIN OVER THE MOUNTAINS. A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN ANDEERSON...SPARTANBURG... AND LAURENS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST ABOUT 45 MILES AN HOUR. 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, 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 |
| Feb 16, 11:32 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville, Oconee, Pickens | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in South 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.