Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1992, 4:25 PM EDT for Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1992, 4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1992, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Caldwell County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAVL 042031 FFWAVL NCC027-042230- BULLETIN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 425 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ASHEVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA ...AVERY...WATAUGA AND CALDWELL COUNTY RAIN HAS TAPERED OFF IN THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA BUT SOME MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS IS STILL OCCURING AS A RESULT OF PREVIOUS RAINFALL. ALSO MORE RAIN WILL MOVE INTO THESE AREAS IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MOORE
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, 4 hours 18 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, 3 hours 34 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
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:33 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
SCZ001-002-004-042030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 330 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM FOR ALL UPSTATE COUNTIES... AT 325 THIS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE OCCURRING OVER OCONEE...PICKENS...SOUTHERN SPARTANBURG... AND UNION COUNTIES OF THE UPSTATE. THE STRONGEST OF STORMS WAS LOCATED OVER WOODRUFF SC MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS ARE REDEVLOPING OVER THE AREA IN THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. RESIDENTS OF THE UPSTATE SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LEFKOF
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:53 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
NCZ007-008-042100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 352 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1992 ...A THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 OCLOCK TONIGHT... NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED SINCE THE TORNADO IN CLEVELAND COUNTY EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. AT 350 THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDESTORMS ... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... THROUGHOUT THE AREA WITHIN MORE THAN 100 MILES OF CHARLOTTE. THE HEAVIEST ONE WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF CHARLOTTE. OTHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS NOTED OVER LAKE WYLIE... COUTHEASTERN YORK COUNTY OF SOUTH CAROLINA... NORTHEASTERN GASTON COUNTY... CENTRAL CLEVELAND COUNTY NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY AND SOUTHWESTERN CATAWBA COUNTY. TO THE SOUTHEAST OF CHARLOTTE A THUNDERSTORM WAS BEING SHOWN OVER MONROE. ALL PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THROUGHOUT THE WATCH AREA THIS AFTERNOON. RAINFALL WITH PASSING THUNDERSTORMS WILL OFTEN BE HEAVY AND POOLING OF WATER IS LIKELY. RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE AFFECTED IN MANY AREAS SO EVERYONE MUST BE ALERT FOR THIS. NEARLY ONE INCH OF RAIN WAS \RECORDED THROUGH 345 THIS AFTERNOON AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLOTTE. MANY AREAS HAVE RECEIVED EVEN MORE. ANOTHER UPDATED IS PLANNED FOR ABOUT 5 PM... DO NOT USE THIS STATEMENT BEYOND THAT TIME. RK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery, Caldwell, Watauga | 118 min |
| 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, 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 |
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.