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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 23, 1993Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Mar 23, 1993, 2:02 PM EST for Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 23, 1993, 2:02 PM EST (19:02 UTC)
Expired
Mar 23, 1993, 4:00 PM EST
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ashe County, NC, Watauga County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 12:00Z on 1993-03-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1993-03-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 169 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 12:09 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPWatauga2 hr
Mar 23, 1:20 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPHenderson115 min
Mar 23, 3:48 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPAshe, Watauga4 hr
Mar 23, 3:57 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPMcDowell2 hr
Mar 23, 4:54 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPHaywood, Henderson, Transylvania4 hr
Mar 23, 4:54 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPCaldwell4 hr
Mar 23, 5:57 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPOconee, Pickens33 min
Mar 23, 6:41 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPAnderson34 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.