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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 26, 1992Watauga County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 1992, 2:35 PM EDT for Watauga County, North Carolina. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 26, 1992, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 1992, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Watauga County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 293 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 1992-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 882 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 1992-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
882 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 3:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPYancey2 hr
Aug 26, 6:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPBuncombe115 min

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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.