Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 1992, 8:11 PM EDT for Macon County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 1992, 8:11 PM EDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 1992, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 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 060013 FFWAVL NCC113-060215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 811 PM EDT SAT SEP 5 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ASHEVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHERN MACON COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED VERY HEAVY RAINS PERSISTING OVER SOUTHERN MACON COUNTY. MACON COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTS SOME FLOODING IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY AT THIS TIME. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAUSING THIS VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE MOVING VERY SLOW AND SHOULD CONTINUE OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY FOR AT LEAST TWO MORE HOURS CAUSING THE CONTINUATION OF THE FLOODING PROBLEMS. 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. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. GGW
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, Sep 5, 2:12 PM EDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
SCZ001-002-004-051915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 211 PM EDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... WEATHER RADAR AT 205 EDT SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM NEAR THE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG AIRPORT TO SPARTANBURG...FROM THE CITY OF LAURENS ACROSS ABBEVILLE COUNTY...IN CENTRAL GREENWOOD COUNTY... AND FROM EASLEY IN SOUTHEAST PICKENS COUNTY TO SENECA IN SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AND NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PEOPLE IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... INTENSE LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...LOW LYING AREAS...AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IS POSSIBLE. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WERE IN CENTRAL PICKENS COUNTY AND IN NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS. D. ROBBINS/GSP
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 2:55 PM EDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
NCZ008-051955-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
255 PM EDT SAT SEP 05 1992
DO NOT BROADCAST THIS STATEMENT AFTER 355 PM
...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE OVER NORTH CAROLINAS
SOUTHERN PIEDMONT ...
AT 250 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
CONTINUING OVER THE NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES OF GASTON ... CABARRUS
... AND MECKLENBURG. THESE STORMS CONTINUED TO MAINTAIN THEIR
INTENSITY AND WERE MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD THE NORTH AT AROUND 5 MPH. IF
YOU ARE IN THESE COUNTIES BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY
RAINFALL ... DEADLY LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS
THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL ASSOCIATED WITH
THEM MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED POOLING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND FLOODING OF
LOW LYING AREAS.
IF THESE STORMS APPROACH BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED STATEMENT ON THIS WEATHER EVENT WILL BE ISSUED
AROUND 355 PM EDT OR EARLIER DSHOULD CONDITIONS WORSEN.
MATTSpecial weather statement, Sep 5, 3:11 PM EDT, 5 hours before
SCZ001-002-004-052015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 310 PM EDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUE OVER UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... WEATHER RADAR AT 305 EDT SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LAURENS...IN SOUTHEAST ABBEVILLE...AND IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN ANDERSON COUNTIES...AND ALSO MOVING INTO SOUTHERN PICKENS COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AND NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE AREA OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...INTENSE LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...LOW LYING AREAS... AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IS POSSIBLE. A LARGER AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS INDICATED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN GEORGIA. THIS AREA SHOULD AFFECT UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA LATER THlIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS. D. ROBBINS/GSP
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 3:34 PM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
NCZ008-051900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 335 PM EDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...TORRENTIAL RAIN FALLING IN SECTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA... TOM KARR.30 IT WAS RAINING VERY HARD AT CHARLOTTES DOUGLAS AIRPORT WHERE FOUR TENTHS OF AN INCH HAD ACCUMULATED IN THE PAST 10 MINUTES. POOLING OF WATER ON HIGHWAYS... ESPECIALLY AT INTERSECTIONS WILL BE A PROBLEM FOR SEVERAL HOURS THIS AFTERNOON AS RAIN CONTINUES. AND... DRAINAGE DITCHES WILL FILL QUICKLY FROM THE RAPID RUNOFF. ...BY 333 THIS AFTERNOON THE RAINFALL TOTAL IN JUST 13 MINUTES HAD EXCEEDED 0.60 INCH AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLOTTE. AND... IT WAS STILL RAINING VERY HARD... THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED JUST PRIOR TO 4 OCLOCK THIS AFTERNOON. RK
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 3:38 PM EDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
NCZ008-051900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 335 PM EDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...TORRENTIAL RAIN FALLING IN SECTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA... TOM KARR... A COOPERATIVE WEATHER OBSERVER FOR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE... RECORDED 2.93 INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN 1:30 AND 3:00 THIS AFTERNOON IN CONCORD... CABARRUS COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA. A CHECK WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN CABARRUS COUNTY SHOWS NO STREAM FLOODING FROM THE HEAVY DOWNPOUR. HOWEVER, THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS INVOLVING AUTOMOBILES. MOST OF THESE WERE WHERE THE WATER WAS FLOWING SLOWLY ACROSS THE HIGHWAY. HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO FALLING IN SURROUNDING COUNTIES... AT 330 IT WAS RAINING VERY HARD AT CHARLOTTES DOUGLAS AIRPORT WHERE FOUR TENTHS OF AN INCH HAD ACCUMULATED IN THE PAST 10 MINUTES. POOLING OF WATER ON HIGHWAYS... ESPECIALLY AT INTERSECTIONS WILL BE A PROBLEM FOR SEVERAL HOURS THIS AFTERNOON AS RAIN CONTINUES. AND... DRAINAGE DITCHES WILL FILL QUICKLY FROM THE RAPID RUNOFF. ...BY 333 THIS AFTERNOON THE RAINFALL TOTAL IN JUST 13 MINUTES HAD EXCEEDED 0.60 INCH AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLOTTE. AND... IT WAS STILL RAINING VERY HARD... THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED JUST PRIOR TO 4 OCLOCK THIS AFTERNOON. RK
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 5:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
SCZ001-002-004-052230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 515 PM EDT SAT SEP 5 1992 WEATHER RADAR AT 510 EDT SHOWED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS... SOME PRODUCEING HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE UPSTATE AREA...MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTH. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS FALLING IN ANDERSON COUNTY BETWEEN ANDERSON AND WILLIAMSTON. A COUPLE OF SHOWERS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO OCCURRING OVER NORTHERN ABBEVILLE COUNTY AND IN THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF LAURENS COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS ALSO TO THE NORTH. PEOPLE IN THE THESE AREAS WHERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAINFALL...INTENSE LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...LOW LYING AREAS... AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IS POSSIBLE. A LARGER AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA AND MOVING TOWARD THE UPSTATE AREA. THIS AREA OF PR ECIPITATION SHOULD AFFECT UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA LATER THIS EVENING. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO... LOCAL RADIO...OR TV. CURTIS/GSP
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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.