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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Raleigh, NC

September 6, 1999Edgecombe County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 1999, 11:03 PM EDT for Edgecombe 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 Edgecombe County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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 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	Wayne	8 hr

Nearby

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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.