Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 1996, 2:42 AM EDT for Alamance County, Chatham County, Orange County, North Carolina. It was in force for 5 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 6, 1996, 2:42 AM EDT (06:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1996, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Alamance County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Orange County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:44 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 060644 FFWRDU NCC001-037-063-077-135-181-061145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 242 AM EDT FRI SEP 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...ALAMANCE COUNTY...CHATHAM COUNTY...DURHAM COUNTY ...GRANVILLE COUNTY...ORANGE COUNTY...VANCE COUNTY AT 245 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED BANDS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM HURRICANE FRAN MOVING NORTHWARD THROUGH EAST-CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. THE RADAR ESTIMATES THAT THESE BANDS ARE PRODUCING SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN IN A 1 TO 2 HOUR PERIOD...RAINFALL TOTALS HIGH ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. FLOOD WATERS ARE HARDER TO SEE AT NIGHT AND MOST FLASH FLOOD FATALITIES OCCUR AT NIGHT. AVOID DRIVING ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. WATER TWO FEE T DEEP CAN FLOAT MOST CARS OFF THE ROAD. REPORT FLOODING TO LOCAL EMERGENCY OFFICIALS IMMEDIATELY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 8:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wayne | 6 hr |
| Sep 5, 10:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 6 hr |
| Sep 5, 11:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 12:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Johnston | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 12:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Franklin, Nash, Wake | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 12:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wilson | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 1:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 2:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham, Granville, Vance | 5 hr |
| Sep 6, 6:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 8:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham | 5 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.