Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 1999, 6:14 PM EDT for Mecklenburg 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 24, 1999, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1999, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mecklenburg County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 841 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 242214 FFWGSP NCC119-250100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 614 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 610... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM EAST OF GASTONIA TO CHARLOTTE... MOVING SLOWLY EAST. * PERSISTENT THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE METRO AREA SINCE 4 PM WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY EVENING CAUSING SEVERE URBAN FLOODING IN SOME SECTIONS OF THE CITY. WATCH FOR FLOODING IN TYPICALLY FLOOD PRONE AREAS...AND WATCH FOR FLOODING EVEN IN PLACES THAT USUALLY DO NOT FLOOD IN THE NORMAL HEAVY RAIN SHOWER. 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. $$ JONES
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, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 2:12 PM EDT, 4 hours 2 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
Local storm report, Jul 24, 4:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
430 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
342 PM SALISBURY NC WIND DAMAGE
07/24/99 ROWAN EOC REPORT. TREE DOWN ON
POWER LINE.
JATLocal storm report, Jul 24, 4:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
430 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
342 PM SALISBURY NC WIND DAMAGE
07/24/99 ROWAN EOC REPORT. TREE DOWN ON
POWER LINE.
JATLocal storm report, Jul 24, 4:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
434 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
357 PM 2 S SALISBURY NC WIND DAMAGE
07/24/99 ROWAN EOC REPORT. TREE DOWN ON
POWER LINE.
JATLocal storm report, Jul 24, 4:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
434 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
357 PM 2 S SALISBURY NC WIND DAMAGE
07/24/99 ROWAN EOC REPORT. TREE DOWN ON
POWER LINE.
JATLocal storm report, Jul 24, 6:05 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
605 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
545 PM BOWMAN GA WIND DAMAGE
07/24/99 ELBERT 911 CENTER REPORTED
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
550 PM ELBERTON GA WIND DAMAGE
07/24/99 ELBERT 911 CENTER REPORTED
NUMEROUS TREES
DOWN...STILL ONGOING
554 PM 15 S ANDERSON SC 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/24/99 ANDERSON GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR
IVA
RBNLocal storm report, Jul 24, 6:05 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
605 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
545 PM BOWMAN GA WIND DAMAGE
07/24/99 ELBERT 911 CENTER REPORTED
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
550 PM ELBERTON GA WIND DAMAGE
07/24/99 ELBERT 911 CENTER REPORTED
NUMEROUS TREES
DOWN...STILL ONGOING
554 PM 15 S ANDERSON SC 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/24/99 ANDERSON GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR
IVA
RBNThe 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, 3:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Haywood, Jackson | 2 hr |
| 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, 6:19 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.