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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

September 5, 19964 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 1996, 10:58 PM EDT for 4 counties in 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: Sep 5, 1996, 10:58 PM EDT (02:58 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 1996, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Carteret County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Jones County, NC, Onslow County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 41 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: 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KMHX 060259
FFWMHX
NCC031-061-103-133-060600-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC 
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1058 PM EDT THU SEP 5 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA

   ...CARTERET
   ...DUPLIN
   ...JONES
   ...ONSLOW
 
AT 1055 AM EDT... RAIN BANDS FROM HURRICANE FRAN WERE STILL
ROTATING THROUGH THE AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAINS... IN EXCESS OF TWO
INCHES AN HOUR WILL MOVE FROM NORTHERN ONSLOW INTO EASTERN DUPLIN
COUNTY. ANOTHER BAND... PRODUCING OVER ONE INCH OF RAIN AN HOUR...
WILL EXTEND FROM CARTERET INTO JONES COUNTY. THESE EXCESSIVE RAINS
WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE FLOOD CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH
EARLY FRIDAY MORNING.

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL OF 5 TO 8 INCHES SOUTH OF A LINE
FROM WARSAW TO JACKSONVILLE TO NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH. SKYWARN
SPOTTERS REPORTED 2 INCHES OF WATER IN THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS
CENTER IN JACKSONVILLE. THE QUEENS POINT BRIDGE BETWEEN
JACKSONVILLE AND SWANSBORO ON HIGHWAY 24 WAS UNDER WATER.
ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS WERE REPORTED IN HUBERT.

FLOOD PROBLEMS WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING EVEN AFTER
FRAN DEPARTS. PEOPLE IN DUPLIN... ONSLOW... JONES AND CARTERET
COUNTIES SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR FLOOD CONDITIONS. BE ESPECIALLY
CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGER OF
FLOODING.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE 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.

SQI
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 5, 10:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Martin, Pamlico, Pitt	5 hr
Sep 5, 10:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Greene, Lenoir	5 hr
Sep 6, 1:52 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Tyrrell	38 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.