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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

October 8, 1996Greene County, Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 1996, 8:30 AM EDT for Greene County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 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: Oct 8, 1996, 8:30 AM EDT (12:30 UTC)
Expired: Oct 8, 1996, 11:30 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Greene County, NC, Pitt County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 971 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 565 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 924 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 6.0
Supercell composite: 27.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMHX 081230
FFWMHX
NCC013-079-117-147-081530-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
830 AM EDT TUE OCT 8 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...BEAUFORT COUNTY...GREENE COUNTY...MARTIN COUNTY
   ...PITT COUNTY
 
AT 825 AM RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACROSS
THE REGION. DOPPLER RADAR IN NEWPORT INDICATES HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE
FOR THE NEXT 2 HOURS. ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE
IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED THE THE
ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL LEAD TO FLOODING OF LOW LYING...URBAN AND POOR
DRAINAGE AREAS. PERSONS WHO LIVE IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS ARE URGED TO TAKE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT PROPERTY.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
JH/RF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 8, 6:29 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow	4 hr
Oct 8, 6:29 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Pamlico	4 hr
Oct 8, 6:29 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Duplin, Lenoir	4 hr
Oct 8, 7:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Onslow	40 min
Oct 8, 8:07 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Dare	38 min
Oct 8, 8:30 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Martin	3 hr
Oct 8, 8:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones	32 min
Oct 8, 8:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven	47 min
Oct 8, 8:59 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Craven	31 min
Oct 8, 9:16 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Beaufort	29 min
Oct 8, 10:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Onslow	48 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.