Air carrier pilot reported receiving a GPWS alert during a visual approach.

Attributes
ACN	1756970
Time
Date	202008
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	AVL.Airport
State Reference	NC
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

On a visual approach backed up with the GPS RNAV. ATC advised rain shower in the vicinity of the approach so planned to turn towards a GPS fix and cleared for the visual approach. From 5000 ft. Abeam the airport we configured flap 20 on an approximate heading of 347; slowly starting to descend to 4000 ft. At a rate of 300 to 400 ft. Per minute. The GPWS alerted for about 3 seconds. We complied with the GPWS and then cleared it.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air Carrier pilot reported receiving a GPWS alert during a visual approach.

Narrative: On a Visual Approach backed up with the GPS RNAV. ATC advised rain shower in the vicinity of the approach so planned to turn towards a GPS fix and cleared for the Visual Approach. From 5000 ft. abeam the airport we configured flap 20 on an approximate heading of 347; slowly starting to descend to 4000 ft. at a rate of 300 to 400 ft. per minute. The GPWS alerted for about 3 seconds. We complied with the GPWS and then cleared it.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.