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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

September 5, 1996Greene County, Lenoir County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 1996, 10:59 PM EDT for Greene County, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 5, 1996, 10:59 PM EDT (02:59 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 1996, 4:00 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Greene County, NC, Lenoir County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 1996-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 723 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1996-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 308 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 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
723 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
308 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
316 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
7.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 5, 10:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMHXCarteret, Duplin, Jones, Onslow3 hr
Sep 5, 10:59 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven, Martin, Pamlico, Pitt5 hr
Sep 6, 1:52 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXTyrrell38 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.