Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 1996, 7:39 PM EDT for Sampson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 6 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, 7:39 PM EDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1996, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sampson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 1004 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 052343 FFWRDU NCC163-060600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 739 PM EDT THU SEP 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA ...SAMPSON COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATES THAT ABOUT 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF SAMPSON COUNTY. AS HEAVY RAINFALL SQUALL LINES MOVE INTO THE COUNTY...ANOTHER 2-3 INCHES OF RAIN WILL FALL OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. ALREADY THERE IS SOME FLOODING OF ROADWAYS IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY AND MORE FLOODING ACROSS THE COUNTY IS TO FOLLOW. 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 6:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-060400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 607 PM EDT THU SEP 5 1996 ...HURRICANE FRAN TO IMPACT CENTRAL EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA... THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT SUMMARIZES THE ASSORTMENT OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS NOW IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA... WITHIN THE SERVICE AREA OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR AREAS EAST OF AND INCLUDING PERSON...ORANGE...CHATHAM...MOORE...AND RICHMOND COUNTIES. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ROXBORO...HILLSBOROUGH...SILER CITY... SOUTHERN PINES...AND ROCKINGHAM AND POINTS EAST. THE TORNADO WATCH MAY BE EXTENDED LATER TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF THE AREA DEPENDING ON THE MOVEMENT OF FRAN. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT AND FRIDAY FOR THE ENTIRE AREA. THE GREATEST AMOUNTS OF RAIN...PERHAPS 10 INCHES AND LOCALLY MORE...ARE APT TO FALL NEAR AND JUST TO THE RIGHT OF THE CENTER OF FRAN...IN THE COASTAL PLAIN AND NORTHEAST PIEDMONT...WITH LESSER AMOUNTS TO THE WEST. AN INLAND HIGH WIND WARNING FOR HURRICANE FORCE WINDS IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SANDHILLS AND SOUTHERN COASTAL PLAIN TONIGHT. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF FAYETTEVILLE...SOUTHERN PINES...ROCKINGHAM...SANFORD... BENSON AND CLINTON. AN INLAND HIGH WIND WARNING FOR HURRICANE FORCE WIND GUSTS LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY MORNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT AND NORTHERN AND CENTRAL COASTAL PLAIN. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BURLINGTON... HILLSBOROUGH...ROXBORO...PITTSBORO...DURHAM...CHAPEL HILL...RALEIGH... HENDERSON...ROANOKE RAPIDS...ROCKY MOUNT...WILSON... SMITHFIELD... GOLDSBORO...AND TARBORO. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ARE IN EXCESS OF 74 MILES PER HOUR. A HIGH WIND WARNING FOR SUSTAINED WINDS EXCEEDING 40 MPH OR GUSTS EXCEEDING 58 MPH IS IN EFFECT FOR OTHER PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN PIEDMONT. THIS INCLUDES THE GREENSBORO TRIAD AREA... ASHEB~ORO...ALBEMARLE AND WADESBORO. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO...OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATEST NEWS AND INFORMATION CONCERNING HURRICANE FRAN. RFG
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.