Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jan 16, 1998, 3:57 PM EST for Chatham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 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
- Jan 16, 1998, 3:57 PM EST (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 16, 1998, 7:55 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chatham County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 484 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 162058 FFWRDU NCC037-170055- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 357 PM EST FRI JAN 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR CHATHAM COUNTY * UNTIL 755 PM EST * SOME AREAS AND STREAMS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED ARE: PITTSBORO ALONG HIGHWAY 64 WEST OAKWOOD DRIVE IN PITTSBORO * RAINS HAVE CAUSED STREAMS TO RISE UNTIL WATER IS FLOWING ACROSS ROADWAYS. RESIDENTS OF PITTSBORO SHOULD USE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING TONIGHT...AS SOME SECONDARY ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS MAY BE COVERED BY FLOODWATERS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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, Jan 16, 10:30 AM EST, 5 hours 27 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-170200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1130 AM EDT FRI JAN 16 1998 THIS SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT. THERE IS A LIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY SOUTH OF A RALEIGH-LEXINGTON LINE. THE THREAT IS FOR GUSTY DOWNBURST WINDS...AND TO A LESSER EXTENT...HAIL. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN SOUTH GEORGIA WILL LIFT RAPIDLY NORTHEAST TO THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST BY SUNSET TODAY. WARM MOIST AIR JUST ALOFT FROM THE SURFACE WILL BE FURTHER DESTABILIZED AS COLD AIR IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOWS MOVES OVER NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON. NON-SEVERE PEA SIZED HAIL WILL BE LIKLEY WITH SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION...WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. SEVERE WEATHER IF ANY SHOULD BE ISOLATED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. RLH ********************************************************************* 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, Jan 16, 11:39 AM EST, 4 hours 18 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-170200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1130 AM EDT FRI JAN 16 1998 THIS SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT. THERE IS A LIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY SOUTH OF A RALEIGH-LEXINGTON LINE. THE THREAT IS FOR GUSTY DOWNBURST WINDS...AND TO A LESSER EXTENT...HAIL. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN SOUTH GEORGIA WILL LIFT RAPIDLY NORTHEAST TO THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST BY SUNSET TODAY. WARM MOIST AIR JUST ALOFT FROM THE SURFACE WILL BE FURTHER DESTABILIZED AS COLD AIR IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOWS MOVES OVER NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON. NON-SEVERE PEA SIZED HAIL WILL BE LIKLEY WITH SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION...WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. SEVERE WEATHER IF ANY SHOULD BE ISOLATED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. RLH ********************************************************************* 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 12:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston | 33 min |
| Jan 16, 5:00 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.