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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 15, 1992Henderson County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 1992, 10:42 PM EDT for Henderson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 15, 1992, 10:42 PM EDT (02:42 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1992, 12:45 AM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Henderson County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 337 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1992-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 196 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1992-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
196 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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.