Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Mar 23, 1993, 4:54 PM EST for Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 1993, 4:54 PM EST (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 1993, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Caldwell County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 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
- 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
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 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 23, 3:33 PM EST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
NCZ010-011-012-232130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 333 PM EST TUE MAR 23 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AT 330 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING THROUGH NORTHERN GEORGIA AND INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHERN GEORGIA BUT WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. WITH THIS MOVEMENT THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL MOVE INTO MACON AND JACKSON COUNTIES BY 4 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...MOVE INTO A STRONG BUILDING AND REMAIN THERE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR LATER INFORMATION. EJC
Special weather statement, Mar 23, 4:22 PM EST, 32 minutes before
SCZ001-002-004-232300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 422 PM EST TUE MAR 23 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS HEADED TOWARD UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM SOUTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA TO JUST NORTH OF ATLANTA GEORGIA AT 410 THIS AFTERNOON AND IS MOVING EASTWARD AROUND 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE CROSSING INTO OCONEE COUNTY AROUND 500 PM AND WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. AREAS OF THE UPSTATE HAVE RECEIVED ANYWHERE FROM 3/4 TO ALMOST 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE LAST 18 HOURS. WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS EXPECTED WITH THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND AREAS OF POOBR DRAINAGE IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. LEFKOF/GSP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 12:09 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Watauga | 2 hr |
| Mar 23, 1:20 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson | 115 min |
| Mar 23, 2:02 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Ashe, Watauga | 118 min |
| Mar 23, 3:48 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Ashe, Watauga | 4 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:57 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | McDowell | 2 hr |
| Mar 23, 4:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Haywood, Henderson, Transylvania | 4 hr |
| Mar 23, 5:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 6:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Anderson | 34 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.