Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1996, 6:38 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 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
- Jul 23, 1996, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 55 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1996Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.