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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 23, 1997Stanly County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1997, 9:20 AM EDT for Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 6 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, 9:20 AM EDT (13:20 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1997, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Stanly County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 1997-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 456 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 1997-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
456 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 12:33 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHStanly57 min
Jul 23, 1:33 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHStanly117 min
Jul 23, 2:22 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHHarnett, Moore2 hr
Jul 23, 2:36 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHLee2 hr
Jul 23, 3:21 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHDavidson, Montgomery, Randolph2 hr
Jul 23, 3:21 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHChatham2 hr
Jul 23, 3:35 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHStanly115 min
Jul 23, 4:47 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHHarnett, Lee, Moore118 min
Jul 23, 5:36 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHDavidson, Montgomery, Stanly2 hr
Jul 23, 6:44 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHMoore2 hr
Jul 23, 7:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHDavidson, Montgomery, Stanly105 min
Jul 23, 9:12 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHMontgomery, Moore, Randolph4 hr
Jul 23, 9:12 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHDavidson, Stanly4 hr
Jul 23, 2:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHAnson, Stanly12 hr
Jul 23, 7:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHStanly4 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.