Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 1995, 10:54 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1995, 10:54 PM EDT (02:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1995, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wake County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 933 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 280255 FFWRDU NCC183-280500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1054 PM EDT SUN AUG 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...WAKE COUNTY .....THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WAKE COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED... AT 1055 PM EDT...LOCAL OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT FLOODING WAS STEAL OCCURRING IN WAKE COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF MODERATE RAIN OVER WAKE COUNTY AS WELL AS AND AREA OF EVEN HEAVIER RAIN APPROACHING THE COUNTY FROM THE SOUTHWEST. 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.
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, Aug 27, 5:26 PM EDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
NCZ007>011-023>030-039>043-272230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 526 PM EDT SUN AUG 27 1995 AT 515 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL OVER PORTIONS OF THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT AND NORTHERN COASTAL PLAIN...INCLUDING THE RALEIGH-DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL AREA. THE PUBLIC REPORTS STANDING WATER ON SOME SOUTH RALEIGH STREETS INCLUDNIG SOUTH SAOUNDERS STREET. THE WATER IS PONDING ON THE ROADWAYS AS THE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS STRUGGLE TO KEEP PACE WITH THE RAINFALL. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STANDING WATER ON ROADS AND ALSO URBAN FLOODING...ESPEICALLY THE FLOODING OF UNDERPASSES. LOCAL STREAMS AND CREEKS MAY ALSO SPILL FROM THEIR BANKS. THE SHOWERS PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHWEST. MORE HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO BE SCATTERED OVER THE AREA TONIGHT...FLASH FLOOD WATCHES OR WARNINGS MAY BE NEEDED FOR THE AREA LATER THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 5:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
NCZ007>011-023>030-039>043-272230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 526 PM EDT SUN AUG 27 1995 AT 515 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL OVER PORTIONS OF THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT AND NORTHERN COASTAL PLAIN...INCLUDING THE RALEIGH-DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL AREA. THE PUBLIC REPORTS STANDING WATER ON SOME SOUTH RALEIGH STREETS INCLUDNIG SOUTH SAOUNDERS STREET. THE WATER IS PONDING ON THE ROADWAYS AS THE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS STRUGGLE TO KEEP PACE WITH THE RAINFALL. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STANDING WATER ON ROADS AND ALSO URBAN FLOODING...ESPEICALLY THE FLOODING OF UNDERPASSES. LOCAL STREAMS AND CREEKS MAY ALSO SPILL FROM THEIR BANKS. THE SHOWERS PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHWEST. MORE HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO BE SCATTERED OVER THE AREA TONIGHT...FLASH FLOOD WATCHES OR WARNINGS MAY BE NEEDED FOR THE AREA LATER THIS EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 11:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Orange | 118 min |
| Aug 27, 11:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 11:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Person | 5 hr |
| Aug 28, 2:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wake | 109 min |
| Aug 28, 6:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Nash | 116 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1995Every 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.