Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 1992, 12:25 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1992, 12:25 PM EDT (16:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1992, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wake County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 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
- 608 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 261626 FFWRDU NCC183-261830- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1225 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...WAKE COUNTY AT 1215 PM CITY OF RALEIGH 911 DISPATCH OFFICE INDICATED FLOODING ACROSS MANY SECTIONS OF NORTH RALEIGH. SEVERAL MAJOR INTERSECTIONS ARE UNDER WATER ESPECIALLY AROUND GLENWOOD AVENUE. CITY POLICE ARE WARNING RESIDENTS OF RAPIDLY RISING CREEK LEVELS IN THE AREA INCLUDING CRABTREE AND PIGEON HOUSE CREEKS. A SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING ACROSS RALEIGH AND SHOULD MOVE EAST OF THE AREA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. HOWEVER...MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND FLOODING MAY PERSIST. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
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 26, 11:40 AM EDT, 45 minutes before
NCZALL-261645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1138 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1992 NORTH CAROLINA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AT 1130 AM EDT NO SEVERE WETHER WAS OCCURRING IN NORTH CAROLINA. HOWEVER...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS CHATHAM...SOUTHERN ORANGE...SOUTHERN DURHAM...AND WAKE COUNTIES IN THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 25 MPH AND WILL CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE LOCALLY SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ALL PEOPLE IN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV.... OR COMMERCIAL RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLPE WARNINGS. MDV
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 11:47 AM EDT, 38 minutes before
NCZALL-261645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR TYPO IN SECOND PARAGRAPH. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1138 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1992 NORTH CAROLINA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AT 1130 AM EDT NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING IN NORTH CAROLINA. HOWEVER...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS CHATHAM...SOUTHERN ORANGE...SOUTHERN DURHAM...AND WAKE COUNTIES IN THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 25 MPH AND WILL CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE LOCALLY SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ALL PEOPLE IN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV.... OR COMMERCjIAL RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MDV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 12:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Wilson | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 12:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash, Wilson | 69 min |
| Jun 26, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 68 min |
| Jun 26, 3:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 116 min |
| Jun 26, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange | 69 min |
| Jun 26, 5:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham, Wake | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 41 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.