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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 14, 1999Hoke County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 1999, 2:24 PM EDT for Hoke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 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
May 14, 1999, 2:24 PM EDT (18:24 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1999, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Hoke County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1999-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1999-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 141825
FFWRDU
NCC093-142130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
224 PM EDT FRI MAY 14 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL HOKE COUNTY

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* EARLY THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH 215 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER
  SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY
  HEAVY RAIN NORTHWEST HOKE COUNTY...MOVING SLOWLY
  SOUTHEAST.

* NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT OVER FOUR INCHES OF
  RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE UPPER ROCKFISH CREEK AREA IN NORTHWEST
  HOKE COUNTY IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.  MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY
  RAIN CONTINUES IN THE AREA OF ROCKFISH CREEK AND IS LIKELY TO
  CAUSE FLOODING ALONG THE ROCKFISH NEAR RAEFORD.  AREAS THAT MAY
  BE AFFECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON INCLUDE VASS ROAD AND BYPASS 401
  AREAS NEAR RAEFORD.

PEOPLE WITH INTERESTS NEAR ROCKFISH CREEK AND OTHER CREEK BASINS OF
NORTHWEST HOKE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON.

DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN
AUTOMOBILES.

RFG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 8:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHVance33 min
May 13, 10:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin33 min

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.