Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1997, 2:10 PM EDT for Anson County, Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 12 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, 2:10 PM EDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1997, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Anson County, NC, Stanly County, NC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 11:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-240000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1100 AM EDT WED JUL 23 1997 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER SOUTHCENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE AREAS MOST PRONE TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SOUTH OF A LINE EXTENDING THROUGH ASHEBORO...SANFORD... SMITHFIELD AND GOLDSBORO. FLASH FLOODING WILL ALSO BE A STRONG POSSIBILITY AS NUMEROUS STORMS MAY TRAVERSE THE SAME AREAS. REPEATED HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED BUT ANY REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OR FLOODING ARE ENCOURAGED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MLM ********************************************************************* ALAMANCE ANSON CHATHAM CUMBERLAND DAVIDSON DURHAM EDGECOMBE FORSYTH FRANKLIN GRANVILLE GUILFORD HALIFAX HARNETT HOKE JOHNSTON LEE MONTGOMERY MOORE NASH ORANGE PERSON RANDOLPH RICHMOND SAMPSON SCOTLAND STANLY VANCE WAKE WARREN WAYNE WILSON
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 11:06 AM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-240000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1100 AM EDT WED JUL 23 1997 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER SOUTHCENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE AREAS MOST PRONE TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SOUTH OF A LINE EXTENDING THROUGH ASHEBORO...SANFORD... SMITHFIELD AND GOLDSBORO. FLASH FLOODING WILL ALSO BE A STRONG POSSIBILITY AS NUMEROUS STORMS MAY TRAVERSE THE SAME AREAS. REPEATED HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED BUT ANY REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OR FLOODING ARE ENCOURAGED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MLM ********************************************************************* ALAMANCE ANSON CHATHAM CUMBERLAND DAVIDSON DURHAM EDGECOMBE FORSYTH FRANKLIN GRANVILLE GUILFORD HALIFAX HARNETT HOKE JOHNSTON LEE MONTGOMERY MOORE NASH ORANGE PERSON RANDOLPH RICHMOND SAMPSON SCOTLAND STANLY VANCE WAKE WARREN WAYNE WILSON
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, 5:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Montgomery, Stanly | 2 hr |
| 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, 7:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 4 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.