Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Mar 19, 1998, 3:02 AM EST for Chatham County, Moore County, Randolph County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 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
- Mar 19, 1998, 3:02 AM EST (08:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 1998, 6:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chatham County, NC, Moore County, NC, Randolph County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 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 KRDU 190803 FFWRDU NCC037-125-151-191100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 302 AM EST THU MAR 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CHATHAM COUNTY NORTHWESTERN MOORE COUNTY EASTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY * UNTIL 600 AM EST * THIS MOSTLY INCLUDES ALL THE AREA BETWEEN ASHEBORO...CARTHAGE ...AND JORDAN LAKE. * AT 300 AM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MOVING NORTHEAST FROM SOUTH CAROLINA INTO THE SOUTHEAST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. RAINFALL OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAS ALREADY OCCURRED IN THE AREA SINCE EARLY WEDNESDAY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. SEVERAL ROADWAYS ARE APT TO BE FLOODED AND HOMES AND BUSINESSES MAY BECOME THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS BEFORE DAYBREAK TODAY. NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED STRETCH OF ROAD. THE DEPTH OF WATER MAY BE ENOUGH TO FLOAT YOUR VEHICLE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. RFG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 4:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham, Wake | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 4:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Orange | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 6:46 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 7:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 7:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Granville, Vance | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 8:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Warren | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 10:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Moore | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.