Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992

Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 18, 1992Wayne County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 1992, 9:37 PM EDT for Wayne County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 18, 1992, 9:37 PM EDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 1992, 11:45 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 189 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 321 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1270 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 190136
FFWRDU
NCC191-190345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
937 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PERSISTED ACROSS WAYNE COUNTY FOR THE PAST
COUPLE OF HOURS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED
ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY WITH NUMEROUS STREETS AND
HIGHWAYS UNDERWATER. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR ACROSS ALL
OF THE COUNTY DURING THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS AND FLASH FLOODING WILL
LIKELY OCCUR.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE 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, Jul 18, 5:18 PM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

NCZ003-004-014-182215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
517 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 1992

...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS EASTERN NORTH
CAROLINA...

AT 515 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM EAST OF ROCKY
MOUNT IN EDGECOMBE COUNTY SOUTHWEST THROUGH WILSON...JOHNSTON...
HARNETT...HOKE...AND SCOTLAND COUNTIES.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL HARNETT COUNTY NEAR LILLINGTON
AND IN NORTHWEST SCOTLAND COUNTY. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE OVER
JOHNSTON COUNTY.

THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND MAY MOVE
INTO THE CITIES OF FAYETTVILLE...GOLDSBORO...AND GREENVILLE WITHIN THE
NEXT HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO  RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

MDV

Local storm report, Jul 18, 6:18 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
617 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 1992

TIME           EVENT

615PM EDT      MOORE COUNTY...GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN SPIES
           B    IN NORTHWEST MOORE COUNTY. ALSO..."STRONG" WINDS WERE
               REPORTED THERE AT 605 PM. REPORTED BY MOORE COUNTY
               SHERIFF.

GAF

Local storm report, Jul 18, 6:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
623 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 1992

TIME           EVENT

620 PM EDT     MOORE COUNTY...GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN ROBBINS.
               ALSO 45 MPHH WINDS.

620 PM EDT     PITT COUNTY...ONE TREE DOWN ON RTE. 121 BETWEEN
               CALIFORNIA AND BRUCE...IN NORTHWESTERN PART OF COUNTY.

GAF

Local storm report, Jul 18, 6:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
640 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 1992

TIME           EVENT

637 PM EDT     PITT COUNTY...PITT-GREENVILLE AIRPORT ON THE NORTHWEST
               SIDE OF THE XCITY OF GREENVILLE REPORTED WINDS GUSTING
               TO 63 KNOTS...OR 72 MPH.

GAF

Local storm report, Jul 18, 7:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
705 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 1992

TIME           EVENT

658 PM EDT     PITT COUNTY...JUST W OF PACTOLUS...ROOF GONE OFF GARAGE.
               TREE COMPLETELY UPROOTED AND CARRIED ACROSS HIS YARD.
               SEVERAL OTHER TREES UPROOTED. ABOVE GROUND SWIMMING POOL
               BLOWN AWAY SOMEWHERE.

657 PM EDT     MOORE COUNTY...10-12 INCH DIAMETER TREES BLOWN DOWN IN
               ROBBINS.d MARBLE TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN ROBBINS.

659 PM EDT     MOORE COUNTY...MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT CARTHAGE.

710 PM EDT     GREENE COUNTY...DIME SIZE HAIL NEAR SNOW HILL.
               STRONG WINDS BLOWING TOPS OF TREES OVER...BUT NOT DOWN.

GAF

Local storm report, Jul 18, 8:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
805 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 1992

TIME           EVENT
 755 PM EDT    NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AND DIME SIZE HAIL IN SNOW HILL IN
               GREENE COUNTY.

MDV

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1992 Every flash flood warning in 1992

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.