Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 1999, 11:03 PM EDT for Wayne 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 6, 1999, 11:03 PM EDT (03:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1999, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 2271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 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 070303 FFWRDU NCC065-191-071100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1103 PM EDT MON SEP 6 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN EDGECOMBE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 700 AM EDT * AT 1045 PM AREA LAW ENFORCEMENT IN WAYNE AND SOUTHERN EDGECOMBE COUNTIES CONTINUE TO REPORT MANY ROADS UNDER WATER AND IMPASSIBLE. FLOOD WATERS ARE SHOWING LITTLE SIGN OF RECEEDING AT THIS TIME. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TONIGHT DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ARE POSSIBLE. AN ADDITIONAL ONE HALF TO THREE QUARTER INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BEFORE 1 AM...MAINLY WEST AND NORTH OF GOLDSBORO. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO AVOID TRAVEL IN AND NEAR THE WARNED AREAS TONIGHT IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO MONITOR LOCAL CREEKS AND STREAMS AND CONSULT THE LATEST ROAD INFORMATION BEFORE MAKING THEIR MORNING COMMUTES. * DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. RLH
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 Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 6, 9:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 9:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 930 PM EDT MON SEP 6 1999 ANYTIME YOU CAN LOOK AND SEE A TIGHT CENTER TO A CIRCULATION OF A TROPICAL SYSTEM SOME 2 DAYS AFTER LANDFALL... IT WILL LIKELY BE DOMINATING THE WEATHER. SUCH IS THE CASE TONIGHT. LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE SANDHILLS IS A OUTER BAND TO THE CIRCULATION OF DENNIS. LINE OF WEAKER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM TRIAD REGION TO NORTH OF RALEIGH IS ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH A BAND TO THE CENTER OF DENNIS. GSO 00 UTC RAOB INDICATES DRY AIR IN THE MID LAYERS AND THUS THUNDER IN THE OUTERMOST RAIN BANDS OF THE TROPICAL SYSTEM ONLY. THIS RAIN WILL END OR PASS THROUGH THE CWA EARLY AND WILL KEEP A CHANCE POPS IN WITH A MENTION THAT IT WILL BE OVER SOON. MINOR TWEAK TO THE TEMPERATURES OVER NEAR ALBEMARLE. FOG MAY BECOME A MAJOR PROBLEM LATER TONIGHT AS WINDS ARE GOING TO CALM AND THE GROUND IS SATURATED IN MOST LOCATIONS. .RAH...NONE. CLINE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 6, 6:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
640 PM EDT MON SEP 06 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM WILSON NC WIND DAMAGE
09/06/99 WILSON EAST OF WILSON ON 42E NEAR
THE LANDFILL...SIDING
BLOWN OFF A HOUSE.Local storm report, Sep 6, 7:37 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
737 PM EDT MON SEP 06 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0612 PM GOLDSBORO NC WIND DAMAGE
09/06/99 WAYNE WESTWOOD METHODIST CHURCH
DAMAGED DUE TO WIND.
CHURCH IS ON HWY 70.
0615 PM PINETOPS NC FLOODING
09/06/99 EDGECOMBE ROAD CLOSED DUE TO
FLOODING IN PINETOPS
0656 PM GOLDSBORO NC FLOODING
09/06/99 WAYNE HWY 70 W WEST OF GOLDSBORO
AND OLD SMITHFIELD RD
FLOODED. THESE ROADS ARE
NEAR THE NEUSE RIVER.
0706 PM GRANTHAM NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
09/06/99 WAYNE GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR
GRANTHAM.
0717 PM GRANTHAM NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
09/06/99 WAYNE MARBLE TO GOLFBALL SIZE
HAIL REPORTED IN GRANTHAM.Local storm report, Sep 6, 8:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
815 PM EDT MON SEP 06 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0730 PM ROSEWOOD NC WIND DAMAGE
09/06/99 WAYNE HOME ON 581, 1 MILE WEST
OF ROSEWOOD, REPORTED TIN
ROOF BLOWN OFF HOUSE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 8:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wayne | 2 hr |
| Sep 6, 8:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 2 hr |
| Sep 6, 11:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 8 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.