Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Issued

Sep 15, 1999, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)

Expired

Sep 16, 1999, 5:00 AM EDT

In force

12 hr

Issued by

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Area

Whole counties

Counties Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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.

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NCC013-031-049-061-079-103-107-117-133-137-147-187-160910-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
513 PM EDT WED SEP 15 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN EASTERN NORTH
CAROLINA...BEAUFORT...CARTERET...CRAVEN...JONES...LENOIR...
DUPLIN...PAMLICO...ONSLOW...PITT...WASHINGTON...MARTIN AND
GREENE.

* UNTIL 500 AM EDT THURSDAY MORNING.

* AT 500 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN
NORTH CAROLINA.  AREAS WEST OF A LINE FROM BEAUFORT TO COLUMBIA HAVE
RECEIVED 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN...WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS OF 6 TO 10
INCHES. AS HURRICANE FLOYD APPROACHES THE COAST THIS EVENING...
TORRENTIAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SWEEP INLAND
ACROSS THE REGION. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF OVER 5 INCHES WILL
BE LIKELY OVERNIGHT. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED...WIDESPREAD
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS LIKELY. MANY
ROADS WILL LIKELY BECOME FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE.


*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.

$$
RF

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 15, 2:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
215 PM EDT WED SEP 15 1999

NGM HAS BEST HANDLE ON FLOYD OF 12Z SYNOPTIC MODELS...WITH TRACK AND
TIMING VERY CLOSE TO CURRENT NHC FCST. LATEST TRACKING ON STLT
INDICATES MOVEMENT OF 350 DEGS AT 14 KTS...AND WITH EXPECTED TURN TO
N WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE LANDFALL MORE NEAR CAPE FEAR THAN
MYRTLE BEACH. HOWEVER...12Z HRCN GDNC CONSENSUS CONTS TO BE WITH
CURRENT FCST TRACK.

WILL UPGRADE HIGH WIND WATCH TO WARNING AND WILL POST THROUGH
THURSDAY ALTHOUGH WINDS MAY DIMINISH EARLY IN AFTN IF FASTER NGM IS
CORRECT. HURRICANE WARNING AND FLOOD WATCH CONT AS POSTED.

WILL END PCPN AND DIMINISH WINDS FROM SW TO NE OVER AREA LATE THU
INTO THU EVE. WILL GO PT CLDY FOR FRI AND LET LATER SHIFTS ADJUST AS
NEEDED. WILL GENERALLY FOLLOW NGM FOR TEMPS.

CWF: STATUS QUO...WINDS AND SEAS DIMINISHING THU NIGHT AND FRI.

.MHX...HURRICANE WARNING ENTIRE COAST.
       FLOOD WATCH EXCEPT FOR OUTER BANKS.
       INLAND HIGH WIND WARNING FOR HURRICANE FORCE WINDS TONIGHT
       AND THURSDAY FOR CSTL PLAINS.

JBM

In the hours before

NCZ094-098-152030-

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
419 PM EDT WED SEP 15 1999

...TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT FOR ONSLOW COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM EDT...

...TORNADO WARNING CANCELED FOR PAMLICO COUNTY

RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR HUBERT MOVING NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH.
THE TORNADO WARNING FOR PAMLICO COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED.

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

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.