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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 4, 1992Avery County, Caldwell County, Watauga County, North Carolina

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1992-06-04Temperature 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1992-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 2:28 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCleveland47 min
Jun 4, 3:58 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPMecklenburg32 min
Jun 4, 4:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPCaldwell2 hr
Jun 4, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion45 min
Jun 4, 6:11 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCleveland34 min
Jun 4, 6:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPCaldwell2 hr
Jun 4, 1:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion58 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992

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.