Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1995, 3:47 AM EDT for Orange County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1995, 3:47 AM EDT (07:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1995, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orange County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 290749 FFWRDU NCC135-125-153-291100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 347 AM EDT THU JUN 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...MOORE COUNTY...EASTERN RICHMOND COUNTY THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR MOORE COUNTY AND ORANGE COUNTY HAVE BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 7 AM THIS MORNING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EASTERN RICHMOND COUNTY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING. DOPPLER RAINFALL ESTIMATES SHOW FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVEN FALLEN IN EASTERN RICHMOND COUNTY IN THE PAST HOUR...AND UP TO AN INCH OF RAIN IN MOORE AND ORANGE COUNTIES. FLOODING CONTINUES ACROSS PORTIONS OF MOORE AND ORANGE COUNTIES FROM RAIN THAT OCCURRED OVERNIGHT. SO FAR...NO PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN RICHMOND COUNTY ...BUT SOME OF THE HEAVIEST RAIN ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA IS OCCURRING IN EASTERN RICHMOND COUNTY. 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.
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
Local storm report, Jun 28, 11:10 PM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1110 PM EDT WED JUN 28 1995
TIME EVENT
1100 PM EDT ALAMANCE COUNTY NC...SEVERAL AREAS FLOODED...BRIDGES
FLOODED...TRAILER PARK FLOODED.
JBP
/28/95 MORA REPORTED BY TOWN MARSHALL
KJLocal storm report, Jun 28, 11:11 PM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1110 PM EDT WED JUN 28 1995
TIME EVENT
1100 PM EDT ALAMANCE COUNTY NC...SEVERAL AREAS FLOODED...BRIDGES
FLOODED...TRAILER PARK FLOODED.
JBPLocal storm report, Jun 29, 12:58 AM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1258 AM EDT THU JUN 29 1995
TIME EVENT
1206 AM EDT MOORE COUNTY NC...MANY ROADS IN COUNTY FLOODED...
AFFECTED COMMUNITIES: PINEHURST...SOUTHERN PINES...
CARTHAGE...AND VASS.
JSJLocal storm report, Jun 29, 1:28 AM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 127 AM EDT THU JUN 29 1995 TIME EVENT 0126 AM EDT ALAMANCE COUNTY NC...FLOODING IN BURLINGTON AND GRAHAM. RHJ
Local storm report, Jun 29, 1:40 AM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
140 AM EDT THU JUN 29 1995
TIME EVENT
0130 AM EDT CHATHAM COUNTY NC...FLOODING IN SOUTHWEST PART OF
THE COUNTY ON BONLEE BENNETT ROAD...STATE ROAD 1005
...6 TO 12 INCHES OF WATER ON THE ROAD.
JBPLocal storm report, Jun 29, 1:42 AM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
140 AM EDT THU JUN 29 1995
TIME EVENT
0130 AM EDT CHATHAM COUNTY NC...FLOODING IN SOUTHWEST PART OF
THE COUNTY ON BONLEE BENNETT ROAD...STATE ROAD 1005
...6 TO 12 INCHES OF WATER ON THE ROAD.
JBPThe 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, 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 | Granville, Wake | 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
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.