Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Oct 22, 1990, 6:08 PM EDT for Union County, South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 22, 1990, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 22, 1990, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 22, 12:43 PM EDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Oct 22, 2:38 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
SCZ001>004-222030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 240 PM EDT MON OCT 22 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ALL UPSTATE COUNTIES... AT 230 THIS AFTERNOON RAIN SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA...WITH HEAVY SHOWERS NOTED BY WEATHER RADAR ALONG THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE LINE. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER BAND OF RAIN IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL GEORGIA WAS INCREASING AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA DURING THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS...BRINGING OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAIN. THE RAIN AT THE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG AIRPORT MEASURED OVER AN INCH AND A HALF /1.70/ SINCE MIDNIGHT. AN OFF DUTY WEATHER EMPLOYEE REPORTED OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN TODAY /2.02/ JUST EAST OF SIMPSONVILLE IN SOUTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY. THE REEDY RIVER IN GREENVILLE HAD ABOUT 6 FEET OF WATER AT 235 PM WHICH IS OVER TWO FEEAT BELOW THE FLOOD LEVEL. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, Oct 22, 3:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
SCZ001>004-222100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 335 PM EDT MON OCT 22 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ALL UPSTATE COUNTIES... A CHECK WITH THE EMERGENCY PREPARDNESS OFFICIES IN THE TRI-COUNTY AREA OF SOUTH CAROLINA...THATS OCONEE...ANDDERSON...AND PICKENS COUNTIES...REVEALED NO SERIOUS FLOOD PROBLEMS SHORTLY AFTER 3 PM. THE STREAMS WERE SWOLLEN BUT REMAINED BELOW THE FLOOD STAGE. THE RAINFALL DURING THE LAST THREE HOURS WAS HEAVIEST IN THOSE AREAS. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WAS WIDESPREAD ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL GEORGIA AT 330 THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH MOST OF THE NIGHT. PERSONS IN THOSE AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO FLASH FLOODING SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FREQUENTLY THIS EVENING FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS OR WARNINGS. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, Oct 22, 4:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
SCZ001>004-222200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 430 PM EDT MON OCT 22 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH THE NIGHT FOR ALL UPSTATE COUNTIES... ...RAIN IS INCREASING ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT... AT 430 THIS AFTERNOON RAIN WAS WIDESPREAD THROUGH THE NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA...WITH A LINE OF HEAVY RAIN NOTED BY RADAR EXTENDING FROM NEAR BELTON SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA NEAR MACON. THIS HEAVY RAIN...WITH POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS...WAS MOVING NORTHEAST 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY THROUGH SOUTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY AND INTO SPARTANBURG DURING THE NEXT HOUR...JUST IN TIME FOR THE LATE AFTERNOON RUSH HOUR. HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO INDICATED MOVING INTO GREENWOOD COUNTY BY 5 PM. THOSE AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE MAY HAVE STANDING WATER ACROSS THE ROADWAYS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS...AND MOTORISTS ARE UGED TO SLOW DOWN AND DRIVE WITH CAUTION. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, Oct 22, 4:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
NCZ007-008-222300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 455 PM EDT MON OCT 22 1990 ... A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ... INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES .... CLEVELAND ... CATAWBA ... LINCOLN ... GASTON ... MECKLENBURG ... CABARRUS ... UNION ... ANSON ...STANLY ... MONTGOMERY ... IREDELL ... AND ROWAN UNTIL 8 AM TUESDAY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CAROLINA ... INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CHEROKEE ... YORK ... CHESTER ... AND LANCASTER. AT 445 PM EDT ... CHARLOTTE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED RAIN COVERING MOST OF THE MOUNTAINS ... FOOTHILLS ... AND PIEDMONT SECTIONS OF BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS DEPICTED OVER GASTON COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA. ALL OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST ABOUT 20 MPH. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED JUST BEFORE 7 PM EDT. CLARK
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.