Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 1998, 5:54 PM EDT for Transylvania 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
- Jun 24, 1998, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1998, 7:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Transylvania County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGSP 242155 FFWGSP NCC175-242355- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 554 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 755 PM EDT * AT 553 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BREVARD OR JUST SOUTH OF SAPPHIRE AND LAKE TOXAWAY...NEARLY STATIONARY. * RADAR ESTIMATED THAT OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST HOUR IN THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA...ESPECIALLY CAMPERS...SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW...DO NOT DELAY. WATER MAY RISE TOO QUICKLY FOR YOU TO GET OUT OF DANGER LATER. MOYER
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 Jun 24, 1:17 PM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 1:17 PM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG, SC 117 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 CAE/RAH/FFC: NO SIG CHGS MDLS IN AGREEMENT IN DROPPING S/WV ALONG FNT SIDE OF UPPER RIDGE TONITE. NOT MUCH ON SATL AT TIME WITH S/WV. ETA HAS S/WV MOVG JUST TO EAST OF OUR CWA BTWN 18-06Z. SOME WIDELY SCT TSTMS HAVE DEVELOPED THIS AFTN ACR EASTERN PART OF CWA IN NC...PRBLY AHEAD OF S/WV COMING ACROSS NC. HOWEVER THER IS NOT MUCH IN WAY OF MOISTURE OR 7MB VV. ONLY AREA WITH SOME....VERY SMALL CHC WOULD BE EXTREME EASTERN NC AND SC COUNTIES IN OUR CWA. WENT WITH FWC TEMPS OR A LITTE HIGHER BASED ON YSTDY TEMPS. NO POPS IN FCST WILL COVER ANY ISOLDED TSTM WITH NOWS AVL 64/92/64/90 0/0/0/0 CLT 77/97/76/98 0/0/0/0 GSP 70/98/70/97 0/0/0/0 PT
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 24, 5:21 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
521 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
516 PM 2 SE STARTANBURG SC 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/24/98 SPARTANBURG AMATEUR RADIO REPORT
VADLocal storm report, Jun 24, 5:21 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
521 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
516 PM 2 SE STARTANBURG SC 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/24/98 SPARTANBURG AMATEUR RADIO REPORT
VADLocal storm report, Jun 24, 5:29 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
529 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
528 PM PACOLET SC 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/24/98 SPARTANBURG AMATEUR RADIO REPORT
BWMLocal storm report, Jun 24, 5:29 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
529 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
528 PM PACOLET SC 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/24/98 SPARTANBURG AMATEUR RADIO REPORT
BWMLocal storm report, Jun 24, 5:30 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
530 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
529 PM 4 NW JONESVILLE SC 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/24/98 UNION AMATEUR RADIO REPORT
BWMLocal storm report, Jun 24, 5:30 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
530 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
529 PM 4 NW JONESVILLE SC 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/24/98 UNION AMATEUR RADIO REPORT
BWMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell, Rutherford | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 31 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.