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Flash Flood Warning 113, NWS Wakefield, VA

September 16, 1999Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 1999, 8:18 PM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 8 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
Sep 16, 1999, 8:18 PM EDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired
Sep 17, 1999, 4:00 AM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Bladen County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 1999-09-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 1999-09-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 16, 12:25 PM EDT, 7 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 12:25 PM EDT, 7 hours 53 minutes before
WAKEFIELD AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1225 PM EDT THU SEP 16 1999

DISCN:
SORRY...DID NOT HAVE TIME TO ISSUE THIS ERLIER.  FLOYD
MOVING QUICKLY NNE UP VA ERN SHR...AND WILL BE NE OF
OUR CWA BY SUNSET.  RAIN WILL END SW TO NE THIS AFTN
AND WNDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH THIS EVENING/TNGT.

.AKQ...HURRICANE WARNING FOR ATLC CSTL WTRS CURRITUCK BCH LGT
       TO FENWICK ISLD...INCLDG SNDS...AND CHES BAY S OF SMITH PT
    ...TROPICAL STORM WARNING INTERIOR SE MD
    ...HIGH WIND WARNING/FLOOD WARNING CNTRL VA...NRN NE NC.

GINGRICH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 8:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQCurrituck8 hr
Sep 16, 8:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQChowan, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans8 hr
Sep 16, 8:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQBertie8 hr
Sep 16, 8:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQCamden8 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.