Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 1999, 9:56 PM EDT for Iredell County, Rowan 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 1, 1999, 9:56 PM EDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1999, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Iredell County, NC, Rowan County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1368 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 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 020158 FFWGSP NCC097-159-020500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 956 PM EDT THU JUL 1 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN ROWAN COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 100 AM EDT * AT 955 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RdAIN NEAR SHEPHERDS...NEARLY STATIONARY. * 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. $$ JAT
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 1, 9:05 PM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 9:05 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 905 PM EDT THU JUL 1 1999 RUC SHOWS AREA OF LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE DECREASING ACORSS PIEDMONT. ANOTHER AREA OF WEAK CONVERGENCE MOVES INTO MOUNTAINS AT 06Z...THEN INTO SC MIDLANDS BY 09Z. VORT MAX ASSOCIATED WITH PRECIPITATION MOVES E OF AREA BY 03 Z BUT NEXT VORT TO APPROACH MOUNTAINS AFTER 06Z AND REACH TN BORDER AT 09Z. WITH ACTIVITY FIRING IN NE GA AND WEAK ECHOES IN NC MOUNTAINS...WILL LEAVE CHANCE POPS ALL AREAS OVERNIGHT. DEW POINTS RATHER UNIFORM ACROSS AREA. GSP RUNNING A BIT WARM BUT OTHERWISE TEMPERATURES SIMILAR. AVL DEW POINT SUGGESTS WARMER NC MOUNTAIN MINIMUMS BUT THIS HAPPENED LAST NIGHT AND MOST OF MOUNTAINS COOLED TO MID 60S. WILL LEAVE TEMPERATURES ALONE. .GSP...NONE. JAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 34 min |
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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.