Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Mar 6, 1996, 10:29 AM EST for Abbeville County, Greenwood County, South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1996, 10:29 AM EST (15:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1996, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Abbeville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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.
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 6, 9:27 AM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 9:27 AM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG, SC 927 AM EST WED MAR 6 1996 CAE: RCMD FFA BASICALLY SOUTH OF I-85. SCALE BACK TEMPS ALL AREAS. RAH: MNTN HVY RAIN/THUNDER CLT AREA. CUT TEMPS ALL AREAS. DISC: NORTH END OF MCS MOVG INTO THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE UPSTATE. RAINFALL AMNTS THROUGH 9 AM 2-3 INCHES...AND WITH ADDITIONAL HVY RAIN MOVG IN 12 HR FLASH FLOOD GUID NUMBERS WITHIN REACH. ELSEWHERE...HVY RAINS HAVE MOVED OUT OF OUR NC MTN/FTHL COUNTIES FOR THE TIME BEING. WOULD XPCT THIS TREND TO CONT FOR A WHILE AS CONVECTIVE SYSTEM INHIBITS MSTR TRANSPORT. TEMPERATURES ALL AREAS WILL NEED TO BE SCALED BACK A CAT OR TWO TO ACCOUNT FOR RAIN AND CLOUDS. JOHNSTONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 9:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Habersham, Stephens | 6 hr |
| Mar 6, 9:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Franklin, Hart | 6 hr |
| Mar 6, 10:29 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Elbert | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.