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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 25, 2000Montgomery County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2000, 9:19 PM EDT for Montgomery County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 2000, 9:19 PM EDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2000, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Montgomery County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 83 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -47 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
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-225 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-32 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 
WGUS52 KRAH 260121
FFWRAH
NCC123-260215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
919 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT

* AT 919 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.

* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE
  WARNED AREA.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.

CAMPERS IN THE WARNED AREA MUST MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES NEARLY THREE INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR 12
MILES SOUTH OF TROY.

DGS/JWC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHRichmond39 min
Jun 26, 4:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMoore38 min
Jun 26, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHLee39 min
Jun 26, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake51 min

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.