Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1992, 2:17 PM EDT for Avery County, Caldwell County, Watauga County, North Carolina. It was in force for 118 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1992, 2:17 PM EDT (18:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1992, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Avery County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Watauga County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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
Local storm report, Jun 4, 12:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1205 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1992
DATE/TIME
(EDT)
04/1130 (TIME ESTIMATED) LIGHTNING STRIKE KILLED ONE MAN IN
DUNCAN AREA. REPORTED BY WSPA TV-7.Special weather statement, Jun 4, 12:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
NCZ009-010-012-007-013-041845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 1248 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1992 ...HEAVY RAIN MOVING THROUGH WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AT 1230 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN..SOME OF IT HEAVY ENTENDING FROM SOUTHERN HENDERSON AND POLK COUNTIES NORTHWARD INTO MADISON..YANCEY..MITCHELL..AVERY AND WATAUGA COUNTIES. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS IN WATUAGA COUNTY REPORTED AT 1230PM THAT THERE WAS SOME MINOR FLOODING OF THE WATAUGA RIVER IN THE FOSCOE COMMUNITY OF WATAUGA COUNTY. THE RIVER WAS APPROACHING BANKFUL IN OTHER AREAS OF THE COUNTY. ELSEWHERE IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SOME MINOR FLOODING OF STREETS AND ROADWAYS MAY OCCUR AS THE HEAVY RAIN MOVES THROUGH. THE RAIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH A WARM FRONT MOVING TO THE NORTH. AT THE ASHEVILLE AIRPORT MORE THAN ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN FELL AS THE FRONT MOVED THROUGH THIS AREA. PERSONS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAIN DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING DEVELOPS HM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 3:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 4:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 6:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 58 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.