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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 27, 1993Gaston County, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Mar 27, 1993, 4:49 AM EST for Gaston County, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 27, 1993, 4:49 AM EST (09:49 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 1993, 8:45 AM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Gaston County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 135 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1993-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1993-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 146 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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, Mar 27, 12:39 AM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
SCZ001-002-004-270900

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1240 AM EST SAT MAR 27 1993

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT AND SATURDAY FOR THE
   MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF SOUTH CAROLINA...

AT 1235 AM LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WAS FALLING OVER THE EAST PORTION
OF THE UPSTATE FROM GREENVILLE..SPARTANBURG..UNION..AND LAURENS COUNTIES.
THE AREA OF RAIN EXTENDS INTO THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND WAS
MOVING NORTHWEST AROUND 25 MPH. THIS NORTHWESTWARD MOVMENT OF RAIN
IS FAVORABLE FOR HEAVY RAIN TO DEVELOP AND PERSIST THROUGH THE MORNING
HOURS.

THE REEDY RIVER IN GREENVILLE WAS AT 7.5 FEET AT 1225 AM AND FLOODING
BEGINS TO OCCUR AROUND 8.0 FEET. WITH MORE RAINS HEADED FOR CENTRAL
GREENVILLE COUNTY...IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE REEDY RIVER MAY RISE ABOVE
8.0 FEET EARLY THIS MORNING.
WITH STREAMS ALREADY RUNNING ABOVE NORMAL ADDITIONAL RAINS OVERNIGHT
AND SATURDAY WILL CAUSE FURHTER SWELLING OF AREA STREAMS.
PEOPLE LIVING NEAR STREAMS AND RIVERS...ESPECIALLY THE REEDY RIVER...
SHOULD CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS.

SHOULD HEAVY RAIN MOVE INTO YOUR AREA OR A WARNING IS ISSUED...
BE READY TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION FOR SAFETY.

LEFKOF/GSP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 2:33 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPMecklenburg3 hr

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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.