Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1997, 5:36 AM EDT for Davidson County, Montgomery County, Stanly 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
- Jul 23, 1997, 5:36 AM EDT (09:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1997, 7:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Davidson County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Stanly County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1635 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 230938 FFWRDU NCC057-123-167-231145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 536 AM EDT WED JUL 23 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHERN DAVIDSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY...STANLY COUNTY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL OVER THE AREA...RESULTING IN SEVERE FLOODING. STANDING WATER IN SOME AREAS HAS BEEN REPORTED TO BE OVER TWO FEET DEEP. IN STANLY COUNTY THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES. IN SOUTHERN DAVIDSON COUNTY THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF STALLED CARS. THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS POSSIBLY EXCEEDING AN INCH PER HOUR. 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. RHJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 12:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 57 min |
| Jul 23, 1:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 117 min |
| Jul 23, 2:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Harnett, Moore | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 2:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Lee | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Chatham | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 115 min |
| Jul 23, 4:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Harnett, Lee, Moore | 118 min |
| Jul 23, 6:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Moore | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 7:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Montgomery, Stanly | 105 min |
| Jul 23, 9:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Moore, Randolph | 4 hr |
| Jul 23, 9:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Stanly | 4 hr |
| Jul 23, 9:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 6 hr |
| Jul 23, 2:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Anson, Stanly | 12 hr |
| Jul 23, 7:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 4 hr |
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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.