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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

February 16, 1995Cherokee County, Graham County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Feb 16, 1995, 5:36 AM EST for Cherokee County, Graham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 16, 1995, 5:36 AM EST (10:36 UTC)
Expired
Feb 16, 1995, 7:45 AM EST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cherokee County, NC, Graham County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 214 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1995-02-16Temperature 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1995-02-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 433 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
400 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
433 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
438 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAVL 161038
FFWAVL
NCC039-075-161245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
536 AM EST THU FEB 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ASHEVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CHEROKEE COUNTY...GRAHAM COUNTY
 
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN GRAHAM AND CHEROKEE COUNTIES REPORT MINOR
FLOODING IN THEIR COUNTIES. RAINFALL ESTIMATED BY SATELLITE SHOW
POSSIBLE AMOUNTS OF MORE THAN 4 INCHES IN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN A SIX HOUR
PERIOD ENDING AT 4AM.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT 2TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
HM

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, Feb 15, 11:58 PM EST, 5 hours 38 minutes before
NCZ070>073-082-083-084-152325-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC...CORRECTION...
1125 PM EST WED FEB 15 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SECTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN
PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA...

AT 1125 PM EST WEATHER RADAR SHOWED PERSISTENT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
DEVELOPING AND MOVING INTO WESTERN GASTON COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN
MECKLENBERG COUNTY AND WESTERN CABARRUS COUNTY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND SOME FLOODING OF
LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE.  GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGTHNING IS
ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR RADIO ... TELEVISION OR YOUR NOAA WEATHER
RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTtS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

TW

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.