Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 1996, 12:23 AM EDT for Union County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 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
- Aug 3, 1996, 12:23 AM EDT (04:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1996, 2:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union County, NC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:26 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 682 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Aug 2, 9:03 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 9:03 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 900 PM EDT FRI AUG 2 1996 ALL: GOING FCST LUKS FINE BUSY EVENG HERE WITH FLOODING AND PLANE CRASH...SO NOT MUCH TIME. CLASSIC SUMMERTIME NOCTURNAL WARM TOPPED FLOOD EVENT IN PROGRESS IN UPST SC..THOUGH SOME WKNG NOTED LAST FEW SCANS. ACTV WX LKLY TO PERSIST UPST UNTIL WELL AFT MIDNIGHT AS VORT AXIS CONTS DROPPING SOUTH (SHOWS UP WELL ON SATLT) AND WL EVENTUALLY PULL OUT. IT IS PRUDENT TO LEAVE FCSTS AS IS...AS SOME ACTION SHUD GET GOING WRN NC AS VORT AXIS MAKES ITS CLOSEST APPCH. BURRUS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 11:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 7:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Catawba | 117 min |
| Aug 2, 8:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 8:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Pickens | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North 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.