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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 11, 1995Edgecombe County, Halifax County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 1995, 6:18 AM EDT for Edgecombe County, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 11, 1995, 6:18 AM EDT (10:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 1995, 7:15 AM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Edgecombe County, NC, Halifax County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 56 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 111021
FFWRDU
NCC065-083-111115-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
618 AM EDT TUE JUL 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...EDGECOMBE COUNTY...HALIFAX COUNTY
 
AT 618 AM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER
HALIFAX COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL
MOVE INTO EDGECOMBE COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. MINOR FLOODING AND SOME
TREE DAMAGE HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED FROM THESE STORMS.
 
THESE SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS
AND URBAN DRAINAGES IN ADDITION TO WIND AND HAIL.  MOTORISTS MAY
ENCOUNTER PONDING OF WATER ON HIGHWAYS AND FLOODED UNDERPASSES.
AVOID DRIVING ACROSS WATER-COVERED ROADS. WATER TWO FEET DEEP CAN
LIFT MOST CARS.  REPORT FLOODING OR DAMAGE TO EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR
RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
 
MLM
 
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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 11, 4:28 AM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

NCZ009-010-011-110930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
428 AM EDT TUE JUL 11 1995

AT 425 AM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING TOWARDS NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA FROM VIRGINIA. THE STORMS WILL
AFFFECT PORTIONS OF VANCE...WARREN AND HALIFAX COUNTIES BY 5 AM THIS
MORNING. THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER INFORMATION
INCLUDING POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

JBP

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

NCZ009-010-011-110930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
428 AM EDT TUE JUL 11 1995

AT 425 AM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING TOWARDS NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA FROM VIRGINIA. THE STORMS WILL
AFFFECT PORTIONS OF VANCE...WARREN AND HALIFAX COUNTIES BY 5 AM THIS
MORNING. THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER INFORMATION
INCLUDING POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

JBP

Local storm report, Jul 11, 6:14 AM EDT, 4 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
614 AM EDT TUE JUL 11 1995

TIME           EVENT
 610 AM EDT    LIMBS DOWN ON A ROAD. SOME MINOR FLOODING ON ROADS WHERE
               DRIANAGE IS POOR. REPORT FROM HALIFAX COUNTY NC.

JBP

Local storm report, Jul 11, 6:15 AM EDT, 3 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
614 AM EDT TUE JUL 11 1995

TIME           EVENT
 610 AM EDT    LIMBS DOWN ON A ROAD. SOME MINOR FLOODING ON ROADS WHERE
               DRIANAGE IS POOR. REPORT FROM HALIFAX COUNTY NC.

JBP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	58 min
Jul 10, 9:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Johnston	47 min
Jul 11, 5:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax, Warren	57 min
Jul 11, 6:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax	57 min
Jul 11, 7:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash	65 min
Jul 11, 7:38 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Wilson	67 min
Jul 11, 8:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	69 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1995 Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.