Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997

Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Wilmington, NC

September 15, 1997Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 15, 1997, 4:53 PM EDT for Pender 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 15, 1997, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
Expired
Sep 15, 1997, 6:55 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Pender County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 252 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1997-09-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 320 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1997-09-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILM 152049
FFWILM
NCC141-152255-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
453 PM EDT MON SEP 15 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 655 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

   ...NORTHERN PENDER COUNTY
 
AT 4:45 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED HEAVY RAINFALL ACCUMULATING MORE
THAN TWO INCHER PER HOUR IN THE VICINITY OF PENDERLEA...
WILLARD...WATHA...AND MAPLE HILL. SOME ROADS WERE REPORTED FLOODED.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY AND REDEVELOPING OVER THE
AREA...AND ANOTHER COUPLE OF INCHES OF RAIN IS LIKELY BEFORE
SUNDOWN.

DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN
AUTOMOBILES.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 15, 3:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMNew Hanover41 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.