Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1995, 6:02 AM EDT for Granville County, Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1995, 6:02 AM EDT (10:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1995, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Granville County, NC, Wake County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 2611 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 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 291026 FFWRDU NCC001-077-183-291400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 602 AM EDT THU JUN 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...ALAMANCE COUNTY...GRANVILLE COUNTY...WESTERN WAKE COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINS HAVING FALLEN IN THE PAST HOUR OVER WAKE...GRANVILLE...AND ALAMANCE COUNTYS. TOTALS HAVE BEEN UP TO 1.5 INCHES IN THESE AREAS IN THE PAST HOUR. AREAS OF RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE AND FORM ACROSS THESE COUNTYS. COUNTY OFFICIALS IN ALAMANCE REPORTED ROADS CLOSED NEAR UNION RIDGE ROAD. GRANVILLE OFFICIALS REPORTED OLD 75 WAS CLOSED IN SECTIONS AND THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE MOVED INTO WESTERN WAKE COUNTY IN THE PAST HOUR. FLOOD WATERS ARE HARDER TO SEE AT NIGHT AND MOST FLASH FLOOD FATALITIES OCCUR AT NIGHT. AVOID DRIVING ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. WATER TWO FEET DEEP CAN FLOAT MOST CARS OFF THE ROAD. REPORT FLOODING TO LOCAL EMERGENCY OFFICIALS IMMEDIATELY. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. STAY ALERT IF YOU ARE IN FLOOD-PRONE AREAS NEAR STREAMS AND CREEKS. WATCH FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER. BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED. CLINE &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 12:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:17 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Granville, Person | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Moore, Richmond | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Orange | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Scotland | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 5:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Lee | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 5:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 7:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Orange | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 7:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Moore | 4 hr |
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.