Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Apr 29, 1991, 7:54 PM EDT for Greenville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 1991, 7:54 PM EDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1991, 11:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenville County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 466 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
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, Apr 29, 6:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
NCZ007-008-014-292330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 630 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT... AT 625 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES OF GASTON ... CLEVELAND ... AND LINCOLN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ALSO INDICATED CLUSTERS OF STRONG PERSISTENT THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS ... FROM NORTH OF SPARTANBURG SOUTH CAROLINA EXTENDING SOUTH. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH. IF THESE STORMS CONTINUE THEIR PRESENT MOVEMENT THEY WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD AND INTO CLEVELAND COUNTY BY AROUND 700 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF THE SPARTANBURG AREA WERE CONTINUING THEIR NORTHEAST MOVEMENT AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHEROKEE BY AROUND 730 PM EDT. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD SEVERE WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THEM AND WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS ... STRONG GUSTY WINDS ... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. EVERYONE IN THESE COUNTIES ARE ADVISED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR ADDITIONAL UPDATES ON THESE STORMS. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 730 PM EDT. MATT
Local storm report, Apr 29, 6:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
644 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991
640 PM EDT HAM RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL NEAR
COOLEY SPRINGS IN NORTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY
SOUTH CAROLINA.Local storm report, Apr 29, 6:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
647 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991
647 PM EDT HAM RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED THREE-QUARTER INCH
HAIL NEAR COOLEY SPRINGS IN NORTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY
SOUTH CAROLINA.Local storm report, Apr 29, 6:55 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
655 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991
650 PM EDT NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED GOLF BALL HAIL FINGERVILLE
NORTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY.
JONESLocal storm report, Apr 29, 7:11 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
710 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991
700 PM EDT GOLFBALL HAIL ASSOCIATED WITH FUNNEL SOUTHEAST OF
GREENWOOD BY LAW ENFORCEMENT MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST.
ALSO SHINGLES BLOWN OFF RESTAURANT AND DAMAGED CAR
IN GREENWOOD.
JONESLocal storm report, Apr 29, 7:51 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Watauga | 55 min |
| Apr 29, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba | 58 min |
| Apr 29, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 26 min |
| Apr 29, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 61 min |
| Apr 29, 7:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 58 min |
| Apr 29, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 57 min |
| Apr 29, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 30 min |
| Apr 29, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 7:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 27 min |
| Apr 29, 7:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 57 min |
| Apr 29, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg | 56 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 1991Every flash flood warning in 1991
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.