Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Mar 17, 1990, 3:19 AM EST for Macon County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 1990, 3:19 AM EST (08:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 1990, 6:15 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 953 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 428 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 525 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAVL 170819
FFWAVL
NCC113-171115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
319 AM EST SAT MAR 17 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
MACON
MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS HAS CAUSED SMALL
STREAMS TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. SEVERAL ROADS IN MACON COUNTY
HAVE BEEN CLOSED.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED,
ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM, EVEN A SMALL ONE,
ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
MOOREWhat 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, Mar 16, 10:16 PM EST, 5 hours 3 minutes before
NCZ007-008-170500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 1015 PM EST FRI MAR 16 1990 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR SECTION OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA INCLUDING CLEVELAND...GASTON AND MECKLENBURG COUNTIES. THE WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF CHEROKEE..YORK...CHESTER AND LANCASTER COUNTIES. A FLODD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY FOR THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS INCLUDING CATAWBA COUNTY. AT 1010 PM EST WEATHER RADAR SHOWES A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDS NORTH TO SOUTH ACROSS RUTHERFDORD COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ENTERING CLEVELAND COUNTY BY 1030 PM EST. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECIEVED BUT VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND INTENSE LIGHTNING WERE REPORTED. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS IN YORK AND CHESTER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND COULD AFFECT THE CHARLOTTE AREA AROUND 1100 PM. STRONG GUSTY WIND...HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDER STORMS ALONG WITH SOME FLOODING. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENT. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY MIDNIGHT PM OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WORSEN JPW
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 11:01 PM EST, 4 hours 18 minutes before
NCZ007-008-170500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 1055 PM EST FRI MAR 16 1990 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR SECTION OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA INCLUDING GASTON AND MECKLENBURG COUNTIES. THE WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF CHEROKEE..YORK...CHESTER AND LANCASTER COUNTIES. A FLODD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY FOR THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS INCLUDING CATAWBA COUNTY. AT 1050 PM EST WEATHER RADAR SHOWES A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN GASTON COUNTY MOVING INTO MECKLENBURG COUNTY. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM CATAWBA COUNTY SOUTH INTO SOUTH CAROLINA NEAR COLUMBIA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECIEVED BUT VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND INTENSE LIGHTNING WERE REPORTED. STRONG GUSTY WIND...HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDER STORMS ALONG WITH SOME FLOODING. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENT. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 1230 AM OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WORSEN JPW
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 11:28 PM EST, 3 hours 51 minutes before
NCZ007-008-170630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 1125 PM EST FRI MAR 16 1990 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT SECTION WHICH INCLUDES GASTON AND MECKLENBURG COUNTY. THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF CHEROKEE..YORK...CHESTER AND LANCASTER COUNTIES. A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY FOR THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS INCLUDING CATAWBA COUNTY. AT 1120 PM EST WEATHER RADAR SHOWES THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY. SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND ACROSS SECTION OF MECKLENBURG..GASTON..LINCOLN..AND CLEVELAND COUNTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS SOUTH ACROSS CHESTER..YORK AND LANCASTER COUNTIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECIEVED BUT VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND INTENSE LIGHTNING WERE REPORTED. GUSTY WIND...HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDER STORMS ALONG WITH SOME FLOODING. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENT. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 130 AM OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WORSEN JPW
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 11:48 PM EST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
SCZ001>004-170600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1148 PM EST FRI MAR 16 1990 A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS SHOWN BY WEATHER RADAR APPROACHING THE WESTERN UPSTATE COUNTIES AT 1135 PM. THE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS ANDERSON AND ABBEVILLE COUNTIES AND COULD PRODUCE SOME LOCAL FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND ROADS. THEY WERE MOVING QUITE RAPIDLY /NEAR 50 MPH/ TOWARD THE NORTHEAST...SO THEY WILL MOVE INTO OTHER PIEDMONT COUNTIES A BIT LATER WITH SIMILAR EFFECTS. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD SPREAD ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE UPSTATE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. JONES
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 1:22 AM EST, 1 hour 57 minutes before
NCZ007-008-170830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 125 AM EST SAT MAR 17 1990 A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS MORNING AND SATURDAY FOR THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA WHICH INCLUDES CATAWBA COUNTY. AT 120 AM EST WEATHER RADAR SHOWED MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN OVER SECTIONS OF MECKLENBURG, GASTON, CATAWBA, AND LINCOLN COUNTIES, HOWEVER, AN AREA OF HEAVIER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA SOUTHWARD THROUGH CLEVELAND COUNTY AND INTO WESTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THIS AREA OF RAIN WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45 MPH. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECIEVED BUT HEAVY DOWNPOURS, INTENSE LIGHTNING, GUSTY WINDS, AND SMALL HAIL COULD ACCOMPANY THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH SOME FLOODING. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UP TO DATE INFORMATION. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 330 AM OR SOOpNER IF CONDITIONS WORSEN JDS
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 1:41 AM EST, 1 hour 38 minutes before
NCZ007-008-170830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 145 AM EST SAT MAR 17 1990 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA INCLUDING THE COU
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 7:10 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Graham, Jackson, Macon, Swain | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:10 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Clay | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 9:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk, Rutherford | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 9:44 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:11 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 11:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Watauga | 2 hr |
| Mar 17, 3:49 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Watauga | 2 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.