Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Oct 17, 1999, 2:19 PM EDT for Greene County, Lenoir County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 12 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
- Oct 17, 1999, 2:19 PM EDT (18:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 1999, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greene County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Pitt County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 472 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Oct 17, 9:46 AM EDT, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 17, 9:46 AM EDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
946 AM EDT SUN OCT 17 1999
FEW CHNGS EXPECTED THIS UPDT. CONT TO SEE SOME BURSTS OF CONVECTION
NEAR CENTER OF IRENE WITH PRES NOT CHANGING MUCH. CONCERNED MAY SEE
SOME LOCALIZED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER 6 INCHES BASED OF CONVECTION
CURRENTLY SEEN ON RDR AND MORE LIKELY WHEN CENTER MVS ACRS TNGHT.
EVERYTHING IS WELL COVERED WITH FFA. WL HAVE TO WATCH FOR SOME ISOLD
TORNADOES AS SOUNDING SHOWS GOOD HELECITY WITH DECENT CAPE.
CWF...NO MJR CHNGS...MAY UP SEAS A LITTLE SRN WTRS BASED ON FPSN7.
.MHX...HURRICANE WARNING FRM HAT S AND PAMLICO SND.
TROP STRM WARN N OF HAT AND ALB SND.
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL ZONES EXCEPT OUTER BANKS.
HIGH WIND WARNING FOR CSTL PLN.
FREDERICKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 10:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 35 min |
| Oct 17, 2:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Martin, Washington | 12 hr |
| Oct 17, 2:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Onslow | 12 hr |
| Oct 17, 2:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 12 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.