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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 27, 1995Wake County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 1995, 11:15 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 1995, 11:15 PM EDT (03:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1995, 2:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Wake County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 1995-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 933 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 1995-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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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, Aug 27, 5:26 PM EDT, 5 hours 49 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 44 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 10:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHWake2 hr
Aug 27, 11:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHOrange118 min
Aug 27, 11:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHPerson5 hr
Aug 28, 2:11 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHJohnston, Wake109 min
Aug 28, 6:34 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHNash116 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.