Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 10, 1996, 6:03 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 117 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 10, 1996, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Nash County, NC, Wake County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 102206 FFWRDU NCC069-183-083-127-110000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 603 PM EDT TUE SEP 10 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...FRANKLIN COUNTY...WAKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA ...HALIFAX COUNTY...NASH COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT RALEIGH CONTINUE TO SHOW NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING ON A LINE NORTHEAST FROM SOUTHERN WAKE THROUGH FRANKLIN..NASH AND HALIFAX COUNTIES. THIS LINE OF STORMS EXTEND THROUGH THE CITIES OF APEX...SOUTH OF RALEIGH..SOUTH OF LOUISBURG TO NEAR ENFIELD. RADAR ESTIMATE RAINFALL AMOUNTS AROUND TWO INCHES AN HOUR WITH LOCALLY HEAVY AMOUNTS OVER THREE INCHES. MANY OF THESE STORMS ARE CROSSING THE SAME AREA REPEATEDLY. THESE CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE THROUGH 8PM THIS EVENING AND POSSIBLY BEYOND. 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. RA
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, 5:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Lee, Moore | 2 hr |
| 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, 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.