Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Oct 12, 1990, 7:25 PM EDT for Watauga County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 12, 1990, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 1990, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Watauga 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAVL 122325
FFWAVL
NCC189-130200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
725 PM EDT FRI OCT 12 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
WATAUGA
LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN IS STILL FALLING IN THE COUNTY AND SOME
ROADS REMAIN COVERED BY WATER SOTHE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING
EXTENDED.
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.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY..THE WATER DEPTH MAU BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED
QUICKLmY. 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, Oct 12, 4:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 10:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery | 4 hr |
| Oct 12, 12:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 4 hr |
| Oct 12, 1:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Watauga | 3 hr |
| Oct 12, 2:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery | 4 hr |
| Oct 12, 2:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Watauga | 97 min |
| Oct 12, 3:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Ashe | 4 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke | 4 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Watauga | 3 hr |
| Oct 12, 4:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 2 hr |
| Oct 12, 5:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 2 hr |
| Oct 12, 6:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Gaston | 2 hr |
| Oct 12, 7:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell | 3 hr |
| Oct 12, 7:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 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.