Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 1995, 6:00 AM EDT for Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 1995, 6:00 AM EDT (10:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 1995, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stanly County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 949 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 111003 COR FFWRDU NCC167-111200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED ...CORRECTED FOR TIME... FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 600 AM EDT MON SEP 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...NORTHERN STANLY COUNTY AT 555 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN STANLY...NORTHEAST CARBARRUS AND SOUTHEAST ROWAN COUNTIES. THIS CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PERSISTED OVER THESE AREAS FOR SEVERAL HOURS. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FOUR TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER NORTHEAST CARBARRAS AND NORTHERN STANLY COUNTIES SINCE 3 AM EDT. SOME FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN NORTHEAST CARBARRUS COUNTY IN THE BUFFALO CREEK AREA. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FFLOODING 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. RA
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, Sep 11, 5:01 AM EDT, 59 minutes before
NCC167-111200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 501 AM EDT MON SEP 11 1995 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER STANLY...ROWAN AND CABARRUS COUNTIES... AT 445 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN RALEIGH INDICATED THAT MORE THAN THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN DURRING THE PAST THREE HOURS OVER SOUTHEASTERN ROWAN...NORTHERN STANLY AND NORTHEAST CABARRUS COUNTIES. MORE THAN THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL WAS INDICATED OVER THE HEADWATERS OF LONG CREEK AND TOWN CREEK IN NORTH STANLY COUNTY DURRING THE PAST HOUR. PERSONS LIVING ALONG THESE CREEKS SHOULD MONITOR CONDITIONS CLOSELY THIS MORNING AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHEGROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES
Special weather statement, Sep 11, 5:02 AM EDT, 58 minutes before
NCC167-111200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 501 AM EDT MON SEP 11 1995 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER STANLY...ROWAN AND CABARRUS COUNTIES... AT 445 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN RALEIGH INDICATED THAT MORE THAN THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN DURRING THE PAST THREE HOURS OVER SOUTHEASTERN ROWAN...NORTHERN STANLY AND NORTHEAST CABARRUS COUNTIES. MORE THAN THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL WAS INDICATED OVER THE HEADWATERS OF LONG CREEK AND TOWN CREEK IN NORTH STANLY COUNTY DURRING THE PAST HOUR. PERSONS LIVING ALONG THESE CREEKS SHOULD MONITOR CONDITIONS CLOSELY THIS MORNING AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHEGROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES
Special weather statement, Sep 11, 5:05 AM EDT, 55 minutes before
NCC167-111200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 501 AM EDT MON SEP 11 1995 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER STANLY...ROWAN AND CABARRUS COUNTIES... AT 445 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN RALEIGH INDICATED THAT MORE THAN THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN DURRING THE PAST THREE HOURS OVER SOUTHEASTERN ROWAN...NORTHERN STANLY AND NORTHEAST CABARRUS COUNTIES. MORE THAN THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL WAS INDICATED OVER THE HEADWATERS OF LONG CREEK AND TOWN CREEK IN NORTHERN STANLY COUNTY DURRING THE PAST HOUR. PERSONS LIVING ALONG THESE CREEKS SHOULD MONITOR CONDITIONS CLOSELY THIS MORNING AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES. WB
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.