Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Apr 20, 1992, 6:02 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
- Apr 20, 1992, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1992, 8:00 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, 10.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 202203 FFWAVL NCC011-027-189-210000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 602 PM EDT MON APR 20 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ASHEVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA ...AVERY COUNTY...CALDWELL COUNTY...WATAUGA COUNTY RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER WATAUGA COUNTY SOUTH OF BOONE. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED STEADY RAIN CONTINUED AT BOONE. SEVERAL APARTMENTS NEAR THE BOONE AIRPORT HAD BEEN FLOODED. FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND RESCUE SQUADS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY WERE ON STANDBY. IN BOONE...ALMOST 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE ABOUT 100 PM EDT. IN CALDWELL COUNTY...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED WILSON CREEK HAD FLOODED. ROADS IN SEVERAL AREAS NEAR WILSON CREEK WERE COVERED WITH WATER AND SEVERAL BRIDGES WERE ALSO COVERED. IN AVERY COUNTY...RAIN CONTINUED CAUSING SOME MINOR FLOODING ON WILSON CREEK. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS". DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. R. JONES
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
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 3:11 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
NCZ007-009-010-011-012-013-202345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 310 PM EDT MON APR 20 1992 ...SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... PERSISTENT SOUTHEAST WINDS HAVE PRODUCED SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS PARTS OF WESTHERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS BEEN ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. ANYWHERE FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN SIMCE LATE SUNDAY. HOWEVER...LOCALLY AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO BE AS MUCH AS 5 INCHES FROM THE PUBLIC IN SOME LOCATIONS. AT 300 PM MT. MITCHELL IN YANCEY COUNTY REPORTED 4.91 INCHES OF RAIN. ALSO THE DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN AVERY COUNTY REPORTED THE LINVILLE RIVER WAS NEAR BANKFULL AND WILL OVERFLOW DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. MORE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY...HEAVY RAIN MAY BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INT}O THE RGION FROM THE WEST. THE THREAT OF LOCAL SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY AS THE RISK OF WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN BECOMES GREATER. REU
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 3:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
NCZ007-202145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE N 345 PM EDT APR 20 1992 ... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA FOR THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT ... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR A PORTION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ... INCLUDING CATAWBA COUNTY FOR THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR FLASH FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS. AT 340 PM EDT ... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. THIS PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT AROUND 15 MPH. THIS PATTERN WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH THE HOURS OF DARKNESS. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE AROUND 545 PM EDT. CLARK
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 3:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
NCZ007-202145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 345 PM EDT APR 20 1992 ... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA FOR THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT ... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR A PORTION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ... INCLUDING CATAWBA COUNTY FOR THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR FLASH FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS. AT 340 PM EDT ... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. THIS PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT AROUND 15 MPH. THIS PATTERN WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH THE HOURS OF DARKNESS. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE AROUND 545 PM EDT. CLARK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 3:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery, Caldwell, Watauga | 2 hr |
| Apr 20, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 42 min |
Nearby
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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.