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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 11, 1992Lincoln County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 1992, 10:21 AM EDT for Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1992, 10:21 AM EDT (14:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1992, 1:30 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 255 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1992-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 481 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1992-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
481 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 7:35 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPUnion3 hr
Jun 11, 12:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPGreenwood2 hr

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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.