Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 1998, 9:21 PM EDT for Macon County, North Carolina. It was in force for 119 min. 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 12, 1998, 9:21 PM EDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 1998, 11:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1408 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 130121 FFWGSP NCC113-130320- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 921 PM EDT WED AUG 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MACON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1120 PM EDT * AT 915 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE TOWN OF OTTO IN SOUTHERN MACON COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT OVER 1.75 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS MOST OF SOUTHERN MACON COUNTY...EXCEEDING THE AMOUNT OF RAIN NECESSARY TO CREATE FLASH FLOODING ON SOME OF THE SMALLER STREAMS AND CREEKS. MUCH OF THIS WATER WAS FALLING ALONG THE LITTLE TENNESSEE RIVER...AND EVENTUALLY WILL WORK ITS WAY TO THE TOWN OF FRANKLIN AND POINTS NORTH OF FRANKLIN. 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. SAB
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 12, 8:55 PM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 8:55 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 855 PM EDT WED AUG 12 1998 LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS CONTINUES TO SHOW LOW PRESSURE NEAR AGS WITH A SECONDARY LOW NEAR THE SURFACE MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AXIS ALONG THE MOUNTAINS. THE ETA PROGGED CONTINUED BOUNDARY LAYER CONVERGENCE ACROSS THE NC PIEDMONT 00Z TO 06Z WITH DECENT CAPES THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD...BUT THE ETA HAS HAD A DIFFICULT TIME WITH THE WEAK LOW LEVEL FLOW THUS FAR THIS EVENING. RECOMMEND WE STICK CLOSER TO CURRENT ACTIVITY AND KEEP POPS IN THE 20/30 PERCENT RANGE FOR THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS AND PERHAPS ISOLATED MENTION NRN MOUNTAINS IF IT IS STILL WORTH IT AT ISSUANCE TIME...ESPECIALLY WITH WEAK UPSLOPE FLOW CONTINUING NORTH OF THE LOWS FOR THE BETTER PART OF THE NIGHT AND VERY WEAK SHORTWAVES IN THE UPPER FLOW. TEMPS APPEAR IN GOOD SHAPE OVERALL GIVEN CURRENT DEWPOINTS AND EXPECTED INCREASE IN 950 TO 850 MOISTURE OVERNIGHT AND WEAK UPSLOPE. F HG
Nearby
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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.