Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1986, 1:09 AM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1986, 1:09 AM EDT (05:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1986, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wake County, NC
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1007 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 KRDU 290509 FFWRDU NCC183-290800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 109 AM EDT SUN JUN 29 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA...EASTERN WAKE DURING THE PAST HOUR VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DROPPED NEARLY 4 INCHES OF RAIN OVER EASTERN WAKE COUNTY INCLUDING RALEIGH. WENDELL POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED 2 FEET OF WATER IN MANY BUSINESSES ALONG THE MAIN STREET IN WENDELL. MOST SMALL STREAMS ARE NEAR BANKFULL. RADAR INDICATES THAT MORE HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL IN THIS AREA IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS POSING THE THREAT OF ADDITIONAL URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. YOU ARE REMINDED THAT MANY FLOOD RELATED DEATHS ARE DUE TO MOTORISTS ATTEMPTING TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS..BRIDGES..AND UNDERPASSES...AND DUE TO CHILDREN PLAYING NEAR FLOODED STREAMS OR STORM DRAINS. THE NE!XT STATEMENT ON THIS SITUATION WILL BE ISSUED AT 230 AM OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WORSEN. KEEP TUNED TO THE NEAREST NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION OR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR INFORMATION. DMD
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 9:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
^RDUSPSGSO SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 859 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 1986 AT 855 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTROM IN CENTRAL STOKES COUNTY EXTENDING INTO NORTHERN FORSYTH COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT APPROXIMATELY 25 MPH. RESIDENTS OF STOKES.. NORTHERN FORSYTH..ROCKINGHAM..AND NORTHERN GUILFORD COUNTIES CAN EXPECT FREQUENT LIGHTNING..GUSTY WINDS.. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..AND POSSIBY SMALL %HAIL. THIS STORM IS CURRENTLY MOVING INTO ROCKINGHAM AND NORTHERN GUILFORD COUNTIES . RJK
Local storm report, Jun 28, 9:16 PM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
915 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 1986
ADDITIONAL REPORTS
TIME EVENT
540 PM EDT PITT COUNTY REPORTS WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE OVER COUNTY.
NO KNOWN INJURIES..MOSTLY TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN..
SIMILAR DAMAGE IN CITY OF GREENVILLE.
445 PM EDT ERWIN IN HARNETT COUNTY..POWER LINES AND LARGE TREE LIMBS
BLOWN DOWN.
615 PM EDT TOP BLOWN OFF MOBILE HOME..TREES AND POWER LINES
NEAR LAGRANGE IN LENOIR COUNTY. NO INJURIES..
TIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR OVERLAY.
610 PM EDT GUST 55 KNOTS AT FBG
630 PM EDT TREES BLOWN ACROSS ROADS 2 S KIPLING IN HARNETT COUNTY.
645 PM EDT TREES AND POWER LINES FALLING ALL OVER FAYETTEVILLE.
656 PM EDT 3 BLOCK AREA NE FAYETTEVILLE LARGE NUMBER TREES DOWN
SNAPPED OFF AND UPROOTED..NUMBER OF CARS DAMAGED AND
SOME HOMES DAMAGED BY FALLING TREES..NOD KNOWN INJURIES.
700 PM EDT TREES AND TELEPHONE POLES DOWN DOWNTOWN BENSON.
WAJSpecial weather statement, Jun 28, 10:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
^RDUSPSGSO SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 1016 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 1986 AT 1010 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN GUILFORD ..ROCKINGHAM..AND ALAMANCE COUNTIES WITH OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN PARTS OF STOKES..FORSYTH..YADKIN..DAVIE..AND DAVIDSON COUNTIES. MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS IS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. PERSONS LIVING IN GUILFORD..ROCKINGHAM..AND ALAMANCE COUNTIES ESPECIALLY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. RJK
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 11:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
^RDUSPSGSO SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 1120 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 1986 AT 1105 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER A LARGE PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY HAS NOW MOVED TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST OVER THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION THROUGHOUT THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT AT THIS TIME WAS LOCATED IN NORTHWESTERN GUILFORD COUNTY AND SOUTHWESTERN ALAMANCE COUNTY. THE MOVEMENT ON ALL OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT APPROXIMATELY 25 MPH. RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT FREQUENT LIGHTNING..LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AS THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD. RJK
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 11:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 1158 PM EDT SAT JUNE 28 1986 VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED OVER SOUTH DURHAM AND MUCH OF WAKE COUNTIES. IN THE PAST HOUR THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN IN THE TRIANGLE AREA. AT 1150 WAKE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT REPORTED FLOODING ALONG STATE ROAD 1003 BETWEEN KNIGHTDALE AND WENDELL. HEAVY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS THE TRIANGLE AREA FOR THE NEXT HOUR. IF ADDITIOINAL HEAVY RAIN FALLS IN THIS AREA MINOR URBAN FLOODING WILL LIKELY OCCUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 1:06 AM EDT, 3 minutes before
^RDUSPSGSO SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 105 AM EDT SUN JUN 29 1986 AT 0100 AM EDT RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF CASWELL..ALAMANCE..GUILFORD AND NORTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. RESIDENTS OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS.. AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THESE SYSTEMS. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. RJK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 12:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 67 min |
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.