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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 17, 1994Haywood County, Madison County, Swain County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 17, 1994, 3:20 AM EDT for Haywood County, Madison County, Swain County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 17, 1994, 3:20 AM EDT (07:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 1994, 6:15 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Haywood County, NC, Madison County, NC, Swain County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 00:00Z on 1994-08-17Temperature 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 00:00Z on 1994-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 266 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
597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
266 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
290 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

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Local storm report, Aug 16, 11:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1125 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994

TIME        EVENT

1120 PM EDT PICKENS COUNTY FLASH FLOOD RAIN GAGE OBSERVER AT
            ROCKY BOTTOM REPORTED 7.5 INCHES RAINFALL SINCE
            11 PM MONDAY.  SHERIFFS OFFICE SAYS SOME CREEKS
            BEGINNING TO GET OUT ON ROADS NORTHERN PART COUNTY.

WAJ
Local storm report, Aug 16, 11:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1125 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994

TIME        EVENT

1120 PM EDT PICKENS COUNTY FLASH FLOOD RAIN GAGE OBSERVER AT
            ROCKY BOTTOM REPOVRTED 7.5 INCHES RAINFALL SINCE
            11 PM MONDAY.  SHERIFFS OFFICE SAYS SOME CREEKS
            BEGINNING TO GET OUT ON ROADS NORTHERN PART COUNTY.

WAJ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 2:22 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPHenderson, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania4 hr
Aug 17, 2:22 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPJackson, Macon4 hr
Aug 17, 3:20 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPBuncombe, Burke, McDowell3 hr
Aug 17, 3:20 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPCaldwell3 hr
Aug 17, 4:18 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAshe, Watauga117 min
Aug 17, 4:18 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPMitchell, Yancey117 min
Aug 17, 4:18 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAvery117 min
Aug 17, 6:27 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAshe, Watauga5 hr
Aug 17, 6:27 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAvery, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey5 hr
Aug 17, 6:27 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPBurke, Caldwell5 hr
Aug 17, 6:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPHaywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain, Transylvania4 hr
Aug 17, 6:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPBuncombe, Henderson, Madison, Rutherford4 hr
Aug 17, 6:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPPolk4 hr

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.