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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

October 12, 1990Spartanburg County, Union County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Oct 12, 1990, 5:52 PM EDT for Spartanburg County, Union County, South Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 12, 1990, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired
Oct 12, 1990, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Spartanburg County, SC, Union 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1990-10-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1990-10-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Oct 12, 4:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
SCZ001>004-122145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
447 AM EDT FRI OCT 12 1990

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMD CONTINUE OVER THE UPSTATE AREA...

AT 435 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN OVER THE UPSTATE.
THE HEAVEST RAIN WAS IN WEST CHEROKEE COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF GAFFNEY AND
IN GREENVILLE COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF THE CITY OF GREENVILLE. THE STORMS
WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MPH.

RAINFALL AMOUNTHS OF 1.5 INCHES AN HOUR HAVE BEEN REPORTED THIS
AFTERNOON WITH THESE STORMS...THIS MAY CAUSE MORE FLOODING IN
THE UPSTATE AREA. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNING
AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
VALVERDE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 12, 10:02 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAvery4 hr
Oct 12, 12:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPGaston, Mecklenburg4 hr
Oct 12, 1:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPWatauga3 hr
Oct 12, 2:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAvery4 hr
Oct 12, 2:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPWatauga97 min
Oct 12, 3:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAshe4 hr
Oct 12, 3:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPBurke4 hr
Oct 12, 3:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPWatauga3 hr
Oct 12, 4:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPPolk, Rutherford2 hr
Oct 12, 5:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPCleveland2 hr
Oct 12, 6:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPGaston2 hr
Oct 12, 7:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAvery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell3 hr
Oct 12, 7:08 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPPolk, Rutherford2 hr
Oct 12, 7:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPWatauga3 hr
Oct 12, 6:24 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPGreenwood3 hr
Oct 12, 9:38 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPSpartanburg2 hr
Oct 12, 5:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPCherokee117 min

Nearby

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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.