Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Oct 5, 1995, 10:10 AM EDT for Avery County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 5, 1995, 10:10 AM EDT (14:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 1995, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Avery County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 896 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGSP 051414 FFWGSP NCC011-051815- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 1010 AM EDT THU OCT 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG EXTENDED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA ...AVERY COUNTY WIDESPREAD FLOODING CONTINUES ACROSS AVERY COUNTY. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTS PROPANE TANKS FLOATING LOOSE IN THE BANNER ELK AREA...WITH NUMEROUS FLOODED ROADS. IN THE LINVILLE AREA HIGHWAYS 105 AND 221 WERE FLOODED. EVACUATIONS WERE BEING MADE AT LINVILLE FALLS CAMPGROUND...WHERE PARKWAY OFFICIALS REPORT SERIOUS FLOODING. OTHER ROADS WERE REPORTED FLOODED NEAR GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN AND BLOWING ROCK...WITH ROCKSLIDES IN THE AREA ALONG 221. RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING ACROSS THE AREA...HOWEVER RAINFALL WILL DECREASE BY EARLY AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION HIGH WINDS CONTINUE TO BUFFET THE AREA...WITH NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TREES AND POWERLINES BLOWING DOWN. REMEMBER THAT SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE THE RESULT OF EITHER DRIVING INTO FLOOD WATERS OR CHILDREN PLAYING IN OR NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES OR STREAMS. JOHNSTONE &
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
Local storm report, Oct 5, 8:07 AM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
806 AM EDT THU OCT 05 1995
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
645 AM UNKNOWN NC WIND DAMAGE
10/05/95 BUNCOMBE COUNTY *** 1 DEAD ***
LARGE TREE FALLEN ON
MOBILE HOME WITH ONE
FATALITY
645 AM SWANNANOA NC WIND DAMAGE
10/05/95 BUNCOMBE COUNTY POWER LINES DOWN/NUMEROUS
TREES FALLEN ON CARS WITH
PEOPLE TRAPPED
KAJSpecial weather statement, Oct 5, 8:53 AM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
NCZ056-069-070-051400 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 0850 AM EDT MON OCT 05 1995 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSHOWERS MOVING THROUGH THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA... AT 0845 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDS FROM SOUTHWEST CATAWBA COUNTY AROUND HICKORY..SOUTH THROUGH WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY INTO SOUTHEASTERN CLEVELAND TO 5 MILES WEST OF KINGS MOUNTAIN. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS A FEEDER BAND OF TROPICAL STORM OPAL. ...THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO MOVE VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTHHEAST WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL CELLS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH. ...SOME LOW LYING AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING AND MINOR STREAMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO HAVE FLOODED. SOME TREES HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO HAVE FALLEN INTO POWER LINES IN CLEVELAND COUNTY. .CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR TV...RADIO OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR AnY UPDATES. JB
Local storm report, Oct 5, 9:07 AM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
907 AM EDT THU OCT 05 1995
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
0856 EMMETT,NC (MACON CO.) NC WIND
10/05/95 MACON HAM REPORT- NUMEROUS TREES
DOWN CAUSING POWER
OUTAGES. 90% OF MACON CO.
W/O POWER
RCCLocal storm report, Oct 5, 9:18 AM EDT, 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
907 AM EDT THU OCT 05 1995
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
0856 EMMETT,NC (MACON CO.) NC WIND
10/05/95 MACON HAM REPORT- NUMEROUS TREES
DOWN CAUSING POWER
OUTAGES. 90% OF MACON CO.
W/O POWER
RCCSpecial weather statement, Oct 5, 10:00 AM EDT, 10 minutes before
NCZ056-068>071-082-051600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 1000 AM EDT THU OCT 05 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH TILL NOON... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA ANSON CABARRUS CLEVELAND IREDELL LINCOLN MECKLENBURG ROWAN STANLY UNION GASTON ALEXANDER CATAWBA IN SOUTH CAROLINA... CHEROKEE YORK CHESTER LANCASTER AT 1045 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES SHOWERS EXTENDING FROM HICKORY IN CATAWBA COUNTY SOUTH THROUGH SHELBY IN CLEVELAND COUNTY INTO CHEROKEE COUNTY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THESE SHOWERS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS FLOOD THREAT AND PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. IF YOU LIVE..WORK ..OR TRAVEL IN OR NEAR FLOOD PRONE AREAS..BE PREPARED TO TAKE EMERGENCY ACTIONS FOR FLOODING. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO...TV OR WEATHER RADIO FOR WEATHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JB
Special weather statement, Oct 5, 10:02 AM EDT, 8 minutes before
NCZ056-068>071-082-051600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 1000 AM EDT THU OCT 05 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH TILL NOON... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA ANSON CABARRUS CLEVELAND IREDELL LINCOLN MECKLENBURG ROWAN STANLY UNION GASTON ALEXANDER CATAWBA IN SOUTH CAROLINA... CHEROKEE YORK CHESTER LANCASTER AT 1045 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES SHOWERS EXTENDING FROM HICKORY IN CATAWBA COUNTY SOUTH THROUGH SHELBY IN CLEVELAND COUNTY INTO CHEROKEE COUNTY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THESE SHOWERS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS FLOOD THREAT AND PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. IF YOU LIVE..WORK ..OR TRAVEL IN OR NEAR FLOOD PRONE AREAS..BE PREPARED TOr TAKE EMERGENCY ACTIONS FOR FLOODING. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO...TV OR WEATHER RADIO FOR WEATHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 12:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Jackson, Macon | 4 hr |
| Oct 5, 12:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 4 hr |
| Oct 5, 3:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln | 4 hr |
| Oct 5, 3:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 4 hr |
| Oct 5, 4:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood | 44 min |
| Oct 5, 4:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Jackson, Transylvania | 5 hr |
| Oct 5, 4:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson | 5 hr |
| Oct 5, 6:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.