Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 1999, 3:46 PM EDT for Haywood County, Jackson 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
- Jul 24, 1999, 3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1999, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Haywood County, NC, Jackson County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 1875 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 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 241947 FFWGSP NCC087-099-242240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 346 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SOUTHERN HAYWOOD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 338 PM... AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGES INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN THE VICINITY OF MOUNT HARDY IN SOUTHERN HAYWOOD COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. * AUTOMATED RAIN GAGES IN SOUTHERN HAYWOOD COUNTY SHOW THAT MORE THAN ENOUGH RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE REGION TO BEGIN FLASH FLOODING OF SHALLOW STREAMS AND CREEKS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SLOW TO MOVE OUT OF THIS AREA...AND RUNOFF FROM THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS INTO THE MOUNTAIN VALLEYS MAY CAUSE STREAMS...CREEKS AND SOME RIVERS IN THE REGION TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. STREAMS OF CONCERN ARE TANASSEE CREEK AND WOLF CREEK IN JACKSON COUNTY...AND THE WEST FORK OF THE PIGEON RIVER...CLOSE TO THE CAMPGROUND AREA NEAR SUNBURST. * DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. IF WATER LEVELS RISE RAPIDLY IN YOUR LOCATION...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AT AN ELEVATED LOCATION FAR AWAY FROM THE WATER SOURCE. 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 Jul 24, 2:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 2:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 212 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999 CLOSED LOW TO FORM OVER QUEBEC AND CUTOFF OVER ME NEXT 24 HOURS. SHORTWAVE SHOWN BY RUC TO REACH MOUNTAINS AT 21Z WILL CROSS AREA SLOWLY OVERNIGHT. A SECOND...WEAKER SHORTWAVE SHOWN BY ETA TO REACH N TIER SUN AFTERNOON...MOVING INTO SC SUN EVENING. NGM/AVN MUCH WEAKER WITH SECOND FEATURE...AND NGM MUCH FASTER...ENDING PVA EARLY SUN EVENING. MODELS BRING TROUGH OR WEAK FRONT DOWN EASTERN SEABOARD TONIGHT. THIS FEATURE BECOMES STATIONARY OVER AREA INTO MON...WITH MOST THICKNESS PACKING N AND E. NGM TROUGH STRONGER AND OVER SC...ETA TROUGH WEAKER AND OVER NC. AVN COMPROMISES. SURFACE RIDGE BEHIND BOUNDARY FAR ENOUGH W AND AT LOW ENOUGH LATITUDE THAT SURFACE FLOW NOT LIKELY TO BE NE...BUT RATHER W-NW. MID/UPPER LEVELS TO DRY OUT SUN MORNING. DOWNSLOPE COMPONENT TO INHIBIT CONVECTION SUN. NVA...SUBSIDENCE AND CONTINUED DOWNSLOPE MON TO WARM TEMPERATURES AS DEW POINTS LOWER. FWC MAX TEMPS VERY HIGH AND HARD TO BUY...EVEN WITH DOWNSLOPE. WILL COMPROMISE BETWEEN FWC AND FAN. DEW POINTS DICTATE MINIMUM TEMPERATURES. UPDATE: RADAR COVERAGE FILLING IN AND STILL HAVE 6-8 HOURS TO GET BACK EDGE PAST MOUNTAINS. WILL INCREASE POPS TONIGHT TO CATEGORICAL NC AND LIKELY GA/SC. AVL 67/91/64/91 +200 CLT 71/96/69/97 +100 GSP 72/97/70/98 6110 .GSP...NONE. JAT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 10:32 AM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-242100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED FOR FORMAT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1032 AM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON... A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL INTERACT WITH THIS AIRMASS...TRIGGERING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN DEVELOPING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND MOVE SOUTHEAST. PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILL SECTIONS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THUNDERSTORMS BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL AROUND ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION FOR ANY LATER STATEMENTS...WATCHES OR WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HG
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 10:32 AM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-242100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1032 AM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON... A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL INTERACT WITH THIS AIRMASS...TRIGGERING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN DEVELOPING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND MOVE SOUTHEAST. PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILL SECTIONS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THUNDERSTORMS BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL AROUND ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION FOR ANY LATER STATEMENTS...WATCHES OR WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HG
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 10:32 AM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-242100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED FOR FORMAT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1032 AM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON... A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL INTERACT WITH THIS AIRMASS...TRIGGERING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN DEVELOPING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND MOVE SOUTHEAST. PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILL SECTIONS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THUNDERSTORMS BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL AROUND ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION FOR ANY LATER STATEMENTS...WATCHES OR WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HG
Local storm report, Jul 24, 1:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
120 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
115 PM 7 W BURNSVILLE NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/24/99 YANCEY PRICES CREEK STORE
REPORTED HAIL UP TO
QUARTER SIZE FALLING FOR
15 MINUTES
JONESSpecial weather statement, Jul 24, 3:42 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-250400- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 342 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN ADVANCE OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE CROSSING THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY PRODUCED LARGE HAIL...AND THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ALSO EXISTS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST NUMEROUS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS DURING THE EARLY EVENING...WITH THE ACTIVITY GRADUALLY SHIFTING EASTWARD AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL GENERALLY TAPER OFF BY 9 PM ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS...WHILE EASTERN PIEDMONT SECTIONS MAY SEE STORMS LINGER UNTIL MIDNIGHT. THE WIDESPREAD NATURE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG WITH THEIR SLOW SOUTHEAST MOVEMENT...ALSO CREATES THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING TO DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY IN THE MOUNTAINS. TORRENTIAL RAIN OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL BE COMMON IN THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS...AND STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL LIKELY RISE RAPIDLY. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ARE REQUESTED TO CLOSELY MONITOR THE SITUATION AND RELAY ANY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR FLASH FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HG HG
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 3:42 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-250400- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 342 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN ADVANCE OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE CROSSING THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY PRODUCED LARGE HAIL...AND THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ALSO EXISTS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST NUMEROUS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS DURING THE EARLY EVENING...WITH THE ACTIVITY GRADUALLY SHIFTING EASTWARD AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL GENERALLY TAPER OFF BY 9 PM ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS...WHILE EASTERN PIEDMONT SECTIONS MAY SEE STORMS LINGER UNTIL MIDNIGHT. THE WIDESPREAD NATURE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG WITH THEIR SLOW SOUTHEAST MOVEMENT...ALSO CREATES THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING TO DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY IN THE MOUNTAINS. TORRENTIAL RAIN OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL BE COMMON IN THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS...AND STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL LIKELY RISE RAPIDLY. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ARE REQUESTED TO CLOSELY MONITOR THE SITUATION AND RELAY ANY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR FLASH FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HG HG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Yancey | 50 min |
| Jul 24, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell | 44 min |
| Jul 24, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Rowan | 48 min |
| Jul 24, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Madison | 32 min |
| Jul 24, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 48 min |
| Jul 24, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Yancey | 51 min |
| Jul 24, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 6:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 46 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999
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.