Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1997, 12:33 AM EDT for Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 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
- Jul 23, 1997, 12:33 AM EDT (04:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1997, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stanly County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 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.
- 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 230435 FFWRDU NCC167-230530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1233 AM EDT WED JUL 23 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...STANLY COUNTY AT 12:33 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICIATED THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THE PAST 2 1/2 HOURS OVER STANLY COUNTY. AREAS IN AND AROUND ALBEMARLE AND RICHFIELD ARE ALREADY EXPERIENCING FLOODING IN STREETS AND SURROUNDING LOW LYING AREAS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL CAN ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH STANLY COUNTY THROUGH 1:35 AM. 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. 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 TOz ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED. JWC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 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.