Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Issued

Sep 27, 1999, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)

Expired

Sep 27, 1999, 8:00 PM EDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Area

Whole counties

County Pitt County, NC

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KHAT 272124
FFWMHX
NCC147-280000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
500 PM EDT MON SEP 27 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA FOR...
  PITT COUNTY

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 458 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY       
  HEAVY RAINS OCCURING OVER EASTERN PITT COUNTY.

* HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CONTINUE ACROSS PITT COUNTY THROUGH     
  EARLY EVENING. 

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND 
STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...UNDERPASSES...AND COUNTRY ROADS. FARMLAND ALONG 
THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE ALSO 
SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.

PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR
RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 27, 3:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
331 PM EDT MON SEP 27 1999

...UPDATED...WL ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR INLAND COUNTIES. HEAVY
RAIN LAST COUPLE HOURS PLUS POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN
OVERNIGHT MAY LEAD TO FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS OVER
INLAND LOCATIONS...

DEEP MOISTURE WL CONT OVER ERN NC THROUGH WED. MAIN PROBLEM IS TRYING
TO PINPOINT WHERE AND WHEN BEST LIFT WL OCCUR. CURRENTLY SRT WV IS
CROSSING RGN WITH GOOD CVRG OF SHRA...ESPCLY NRN HALF. SHLD SEE A BIT
OF A LULL AS THIS SRT WV MVS N THIS EVENING. MDLS SHOW ANOTHER WEAK
SRT WV APPROACHING LTR TNGHT. RGNL RDR LOOPS SHOW LOTS OF SHRA WITH
THIS FEATURE TO S AND WOULD EXPECT THIS TO SPREAD N OVERNIGHT. BEST
UVM...MOISTURE TRANSPORT...AND THETA-E AIR IS PROGGED ACRSS THE I-95
CORRIDOR W. PLAN ON GOING WITH LIKELY POPS CSTL PLAIN TO CHCY CST.
MILD WITH LOWS CPL DGRS EITHER SIDE OF 70 MST SPOTS. LOOKS LIKE BEST
FORCING WL REMAIN TO W TUE/TUE NIGHT AS UPR RDG MVS W. RGN WL REMAIN
IN WEAKLY DIFL FLOW AND WITH MOISTURE REMAINING HIGH WL CONT GOOD CHC
TO CHC POPS...AGAIN HIGHEST INLAND. ON WED STRG UPR TRF AND FRNT WL
BE APPROACHING FROM W. UVM WL BE INCREASING LATE AS THE SRT WV
APPROACHES. MAY BUMP UP POPS LTR WED AND INDICATE BETTER THUNDER
POTENTIAL. ALL IN ALL LOOKS LIKE A RATHER CLOUDY...MILD PD WITH BEST
RAIN POTENTIAL INLAND.

CWF...GENERAL E TO SE FLOW TO CONT INTO TUE NIGHT WITH SPEEDS IN 15
KT RANGE. LATER WED GRDNT WL BEGIN TO TIGHTEN AS FRNT GETS CLSR...
EXPECT WINDS TO INCREASE AND BECOME S/SW. SCA CONDITIONS POSS IN
EXTENDED PORTION AS FRNT CROSSES.

.MHX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 4 AM FOR CRAVEN...JONES...BEAUFORT...
       DUPLIN...LENOIR...PITT...GREENE AND MARTIN COUNTIES.

FREDERICK

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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.