Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 1998, 7:42 PM EDT for Duplin 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 17, 1998, 7:42 PM EDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1998, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Duplin County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 985 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILM 172342 FFWMHX NCC061-180145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 742 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A... * FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DUPLIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 945 PM EDT * AT 740 PM EDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED 1 HOUR RAINFALL AMOUNTS 3.5 INCHES ALONG HIGHWAYS 50 AND 41 BETWEEN GREENEVERS AND CHINQUAPIN. THIS HEAVY RAINFALL WAS DUE TO SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. THE ROADBED MAY NOT BE INTACT UNDER THE WATER. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHERb GROUND. HEWITT/JME
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.
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 17, 1:42 PM EDT, 6 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 1:42 PM EDT, 6 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 142 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 1998 ZFP: WEAK TRF/FRNT WILL LINGER ACRS RGN THROUGH SAT THEN GRADUALLY DISSIPATE. UPPER LVL TRF EXPECTED TO REMAIN JUST W WITH VERY WEAK IMPULSES PASSING THRU FROM TIME TO TIME. LOW LVL AIRMASS WL REMAIN VERY MOIST AND WITH DAYTIME HEATING WILL LIKELY SEE DECENT INSTAB. WITH POTENTIAL FOR WEAK UVM FROM PASSING VORTS AND SOME DIFL ALFT THERE WL BE THREAT OF CNVCTN ABOUT ANY TIME NXT CPL DYS. THINK BEST CHCS WL BE AFTN/EVENING BUT PROB BEST TO KEEP AT LEAST SMALL POP EVEN OVRNGHT. SHLD SEE DECENT AMOUNT OF SUN NXT CPL DAYS WITH HIGHS CPL DGRS EITHER SIDE OF 90 MST SPOTS...MILD NIGHTS WITH MAINLY MID 70S. CWF: STILL ROUGH SEAS S OF HAT BUT PROB CAN KEEP A NOTCH BELOW SCA. WITH SW FLOW EXPECTED TO PERSIST SRN WTRS WL KEEP SEAS UP THRU PD. WEAK TRF EXPECTED TO REMAIN INLAND HOWEVER MAY GET VERY CLOSE TO NRN WTRS AND SNDS LTR SAT INTO SUN. MAY WORD VRBL NRN SCTNS AS GRDNT WL BE VERY LOOSE AND WITH CNVCTN COULD EASILY SEE PD OF N WINDS. LOOKS LIKE WDLY SCT TO SCT SHRA/TSTM THRU PD. .MHX...NONE. FREDERICK
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.