Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1992, 7:48 PM EDT for Cherokee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 20, 1992, 7:48 PM EDT (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1992, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, 4 hours 37 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, 3 hours 59 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, 3 hours 58 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
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 6:58 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
NCZ010-011-210000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 653 PM EDT MON APR 20 1992 AT 650 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO CHEROKEE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. PEOPLE IN EXTREME WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE ALERT AND MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO...TELEVISION...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. R. JONES
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 7:21 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
SCZ001-002-004-210215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 720 PM EDT MON APR 20 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE UPSTATE LATER TONIGHT... AT 715 THIS EVENING A BAND OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS OCCURRING IN CENTRAL GEORGIA FROM JUST WEST OF ATLANTA EXTENDING SOUTHWARD TOWARD COLUMBUS GEORGIA. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY HAIL AS THEY MOVE RAPIDLY NORTHEASTWARD AROUND 30 TO 40 MPH. MANY AREAS IN THE UPSTATE...ESPECIALLY TOWARD THE MOUNTAINS...HAVE RECEIVED ANYWHERE FROM 1/2 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE LAST NIGHT AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN TONIGHT COULD AGGREVATE THE WEATHER SITUATION FURTHER. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL MONITOR THIS SITUATION CLOSELY AND PROVIDE THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THESE STORMS AS THEY APPROACH THE UPSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. LEFKOF
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, 6:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery, Caldwell, Watauga | 118 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.