Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 1998, 8:17 PM EDT for Union County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 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
- Jul 19, 1998, 8:17 PM EDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1998, 11:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 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 00:19 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, 0.3 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
- 328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2202 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 200017 FFWGSP NCC179-200320- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 817 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... UNION COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1120 PM EDT * AT 814 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM WEDDINGTON AND MINERAL SPRINGS...EAST TO MARSHVILLE...MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH. * NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL UNION COUNTY. NEW THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT HAS OCCURRED ON THE WEST SIDE OF UNION COUNTY AND WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE COUNTY WHERE HEAVY RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. REMEMBER THAT MOST FLOOD FATALITIES ARE THE RESULT OF DRIVING INTO FLOODED STREETS...ROADS...OR STREAMS...OR OCCUR WHEN CHILDREN PLAY IN OR NEAR STORM DRAINS OR STREAMS. 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 Jul 19, 1:17 PM EDT, 7 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 1:17 PM EDT, 7 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
117 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 1998
RAH: SLIGHT CHANCE THIS EVENING.
ALL: MOSTLY SUNNY DAYS/PARTLY CLOUDY NIGHTS. CHANCE MON AFT/EVN.
TEMPS NEAR TODAY'S VALUES.
WARM MOIST AIR BACK OVER ENTIRE REGION TONIGHT. COLD TROUGH ALOFT
MOVING EAST ACROSS N TIER NC WILL ENHANCE ACTIVITY INTO EVENING. ON
MON SHORTWAVE DIVES INTO PROGRESSIVE EAST COAST...AND TAIL END
PASSES OVER CWA FROM N LATE IN DAY. WITH MORE MOISTURE/INSTABILITY
IN PLACE...SCATTERED CONVECTION IN STORE MON AFTERNOON/EVENING.
NEXT WEAK IMPULSE UPSTREAM REMAINS IN MS VALLEY THROUGH LATE TUE.
TEMPERATURES SHOULD REMAIN NEAR PERSISTANCE WITH NO CHANGES TO
UPPE(R/SURFACE PATTERNS.
AVL 65/91/66/91 2330
CLT 69/96/69/96 2330
GSP 70/97/70/97 0330
JATIn the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 19, 6:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
642 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
628 PM 2 E SPARTANBURG SC WIND DAMAGE
07/19/98 SPARTANBURG 911 REPORTED TREES/LINES
DOWN EAST SIDE CITY
JONESLocal storm report, Jul 19, 7:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
715 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
710 PM 1 SE OLD FORT NC WIND DAMAGE
07/19/98 MCDOWELL COMMS REPORTED 5 TREES
DOWN ACROSS I-40 WITH WIND
ESTIMATED 6 0 MPH
JONESLocal storm report, Jul 19, 7:48 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
748 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
740 PM FOUNTAIN INN SC WIND DAMAGE
07/19/98 GREENVILLE TREES DOWN ALL OVER CITY.
NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES. FROM
COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
740 PM TOWNVILLE SC WIND DAMAGE
07/19/98 ANDERSON WINDS ESTIMATED NEAR 80 MPH
DOWNED TREES. ALSO HAIL OF
p UNKNOWN SIZE. FROM ANDERSON
EMS.
MOYERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 48 min |
| Jul 20, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 51 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.