Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1992, 5:00 PM EDT for Union County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1992, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1992, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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, Jun 4, 12:51 PM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
NCZ009-010-012-007-013-041845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 1248 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1992 ...HEAVY RAIN MOVING THROUGH WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AT 1230 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN..SOME OF IT HEAVY ENTENDING FROM SOUTHERN HENDERSON AND POLK COUNTIES NORTHWARD INTO MADISON..YANCEY..MITCHELL..AVERY AND WATAUGA COUNTIES. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS IN WATUAGA COUNTY REPORTED AT 1230PM THAT THERE WAS SOME MINOR FLOODING OF THE WATAUGA RIVER IN THE FOSCOE COMMUNITY OF WATAUGA COUNTY. THE RIVER WAS APPROACHING BANKFUL IN OTHER AREAS OF THE COUNTY. ELSEWHERE IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SOME MINOR FLOODING OF STREETS AND ROADWAYS MAY OCCUR AS THE HEAVY RAIN MOVES THROUGH. THE RAIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH A WARM FRONT MOVING TO THE NORTH. AT THE ASHEVILLE AIRPORT MORE THAN ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN FELL AS THE FRONT MOVED THROUGH THIS AREA. PERSONS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAIN DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING DEVELOPS HM
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
SCZ001-002-004-042030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 330 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM FOR ALL UPSTATE COUNTIES... AT 325 THIS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE OCCURRING OVER OCONEE...PICKENS...SOUTHERN SPARTANBURG... AND UNION COUNTIES OF THE UPSTATE. THE STRONGEST OF STORMS WAS LOCATED OVER WOODRUFF SC MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS ARE REDEVLOPING OVER THE AREA IN THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. RESIDENTS OF THE UPSTATE SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LEFKOF
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
NCZ007-008-042100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 352 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1992 ...A THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 OCLOCK TONIGHT... NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED SINCE THE TORNADO IN CLEVELAND COUNTY EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. AT 350 THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDESTORMS ... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... THROUGHOUT THE AREA WITHIN MORE THAN 100 MILES OF CHARLOTTE. THE HEAVIEST ONE WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF CHARLOTTE. OTHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS NOTED OVER LAKE WYLIE... COUTHEASTERN YORK COUNTY OF SOUTH CAROLINA... NORTHEASTERN GASTON COUNTY... CENTRAL CLEVELAND COUNTY NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY AND SOUTHWESTERN CATAWBA COUNTY. TO THE SOUTHEAST OF CHARLOTTE A THUNDERSTORM WAS BEING SHOWN OVER MONROE. ALL PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THROUGHOUT THE WATCH AREA THIS AFTERNOON. RAINFALL WITH PASSING THUNDERSTORMS WILL OFTEN BE HEAVY AND POOLING OF WATER IS LIKELY. RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE AFFECTED IN MANY AREAS SO EVERYONE MUST BE ALERT FOR THIS. NEARLY ONE INCH OF RAIN WAS \RECORDED THROUGH 345 THIS AFTERNOON AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLOTTE. MANY AREAS HAVE RECEIVED EVEN MORE. ANOTHER UPDATED IS PLANNED FOR ABOUT 5 PM... DO NOT USE THIS STATEMENT BEYOND THAT TIME. RK
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 4:42 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 4, 4:57 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
NCZ007-042200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 456 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1992 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR THE ENTIRE AREA... AT 450 PM HEAVY RAIN OVER CHARLOTTE AND MOST OF THE REMAINDER OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY WAS THE GREATEST PROBLEM THROUGHOUT THE AREA. POOLING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS WAS IMPEDING TRAFFIC DURING THE BUSY RUSH HOUR PERIOD. MANY COMMUTERS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO PULL OFF THE STREETS DUE TO THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS. HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGHOUT MUCH OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY UNTIL 6 PM OR LATER. EVERYONE IS ENCOURAGED TO CONSIDER NOT ONLY POOLING OF WATER BUT THE PROBLEMS OF HYDROPLANING DURING TRAVEL. AT 450 THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM NORTHEASTERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY NEAR HUNTERSVILLE SOUTTHROUGH CHARLOTTE AND MINT HILL AND THEN TO WAXHALL IN UNION COUNTY. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ON SOUTHWEST ACROSS LANCASTER IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND ON INTO YORK COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWESTERN UNION COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA ARE BEING MONITORED VERY CLOSELY FOR SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT. A WARNING MAY BE ISSUED FOR THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS UNION COUNTY. EVERYONE IN UNION COUNTY AND THOSE HEADING IN THAT DIRECTION SHOULD BE ALERT FOR DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH 6 THIS AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery, Caldwell, Watauga | 118 min |
| Jun 4, 2:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 3:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 4:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 6:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.