Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 1996, 10:31 PM EDT for Davidson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 119 min. 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 3, 1996, 10:31 PM EDT (02:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 1996, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Davidson County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 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 040233 FFWRDU NCC057-040430- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1031 PM EDT TUE SEP 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...DAVIDSON COUNTY AT 1030 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A VERY SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEAST DAVIDSON COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY DUMP ONE TO TWO ADDITIONAL INCHES OF RAIN DURING THE NEXT HOUR. ACCORDING TO DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES...NORTHEAST DAVIDSON COUNTY HAS RECEIVED THREE TO SIX INCHES OF RAIN ALREADY THIS EVENING. WHILE LITTLE RAIN HAS FALLEN DURING THE PAST THREE HOURS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN DAVIDSON COUNTY...RUNOFF FROM THE RAIN IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE COUNTY WILL LIKELY CAUSE STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RAPIDLY RISE THROUGHOUT THE 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. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. STAY ALERT IF YOU ARE IN FLOOD-PRONE AREAS NEAR STREAMS AND CREEKS. WATCH FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER. BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 8:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 9:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 118 min |
| Sep 4, 12:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson | 2 hr |
| Sep 4, 8:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson | 4 hr |
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.