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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 5, 1993Cabarrus County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 1993, 7:10 PM EDT for Cabarrus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1993, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1993, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Cabarrus County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 298 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1993-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1976 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1993-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1976 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
759 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCatawba, Lincoln53 min
Jun 5, 3:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLincoln, Mecklenburg68 min
Jun 5, 4:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus58 min
Jun 5, 4:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMontgomery41 min
Jun 5, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPStanly66 min
Jun 5, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus69 min
Jun 5, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg58 min
Jun 5, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston, Lincoln58 min
Jun 5, 5:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMontgomery69 min
Jun 5, 5:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPStanly65 min
Jun 5, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus, Mecklenburg62 min
Jun 5, 7:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRichmond66 min
Jun 5, 7:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus, Stanly62 min

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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.