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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Raleigh, NC

September 10, 1996Lee County, Moore County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 10, 1996, 5:41 PM EDT for Lee County, Moore 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: Sep 10, 1996, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 1996, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lee County, NC, Moore County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 681 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 909 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 102145
FFWRDU
NCC105-125-102345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
541 PM EDT TUE SEP 10 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...NORTHERN LEE COUNTY...NORTHERN MOORE COUNTY
 
AT 540 PM DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
FALLEN OVER THE DEEP RIVER BASIN IN NORTHERN LEE AND MOORE COUNTIES
SOME FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED ALONG RIVER ROAD IN NORTHERN
MOORE COUNTY. MORE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE AREA DURING
THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS PRODUCING ADDITIONAL HEAVY DOWNPOURS.
 
 
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.
 
REPORT ANY FLOODING PROMPTLY TO LOCAL OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 10, 4:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Warren	115 min
Sep 10, 4:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Wake	115 min
Sep 10, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash	30 min
Sep 10, 4:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Chatham	3 hr
Sep 10, 5:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Anson, Stanly	117 min
Sep 10, 6:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Wake	117 min
Sep 10, 6:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Wake	12 hr
Sep 10, 7:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Forsyth	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1996 Every 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.