Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Mar 19, 1998, 10:37 AM EST for Wake 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, 10:37 AM EST (15:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 1998, 1:30 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wake County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 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 191537 FFWRDU NCC183-191835- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1037 AM EST THU MAR 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CRABTREE CREEK IN WAKE COUNTY * UNTIL 130 PM EST * SOME AREAS AND STREAMS AFFECTED: CRABTREE CREEK IN RALEIGH CONTINUES TO RISE AT WAKE FOREST ROAD AND ATLANTIC AVENUE. MODERATE FLOODING WILL OCCUR AT WAKE FOREST ROAD AND AT ATLANTIC AVENUE AND HODGES STREET. THE CREEK HAS RISEN TO 4 FEET ABOVE FLOOD STAGE AT WAKE FOREST ROAD AT 1030 AM. ADDITIONAL RISES OF 1 TO 2 FEET ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE NEXT HOUR WITH A GRADUAL DECREASE EXPECTED SHORTLY AFTER NOON. RADAR SHOWS THAT THE RAIN HAS ENDED IN THE CRABTREE CREEK BASIN IN THE RALEIGH AREA...HOWEVER RUNOFF FROM THE RAINS THIS MORNING WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE RISES IN THE CREEK FOR THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERSv THE ROADWAY. PWB
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, Mar 19, 6:47 AM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-192000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 647 AM EST THU MAR 19 1998 (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) WIDESPREAD RAIN ALONG WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA TODAY...MAINLY THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. A WARM FRONT STRETCHED NORTH-SOUTH THROUGH EAST-CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA WILL PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON MAINLY FOR THE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. ANOTHER SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 1100 AM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. RA ********************************************************************* 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, Mar 19, 6:47 AM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-192000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 647 AM EST THU MAR 19 1998 (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) WIDESPREAD RAIN ALONG WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA TODAY...MAINLY THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. A WARM FRONT STRETCHED NORTH-SOUTH THROUGH EAST-CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA WILL PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON MAINLY FOR THE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. ANOTHER SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 1100 AM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. RA ********************************************************************* 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:02 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Chatham, Moore, Randolph | 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, 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.