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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 24, 2000Warren County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 2000, 1:15 AM EDT for Warren 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
Jul 24, 2000, 1:15 AM EDT (05:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2000, 4:15 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Warren County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 153 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2000-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2000-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 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 240519
FFWRAH
NCC185-240815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
115 AM EDT MON JUL 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 AM EDT

* AT 115 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY.
  RADAR INDICATES 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER SOUTHERN
  WARREN COUNTY SINCE 1100 PM.

* RESIDENTS NEAR STREAMS AND CREEKS NEED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
  MOTORISTS ARE URGED NEVER TO TRAVEL OVER FLOODED ROADS OR THROUGH
  WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR AT NIGHT.

PWB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 8:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHAlamance3 hr
Jul 23, 10:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHDurham, Orange3 hr
Jul 23, 11:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHAnson3 hr
Jul 23, 11:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHFranklin3 hr
Jul 24, 1:41 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHDurham, Orange3 hr
Jul 24, 4:08 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHHalifax112 min
Jul 24, 7:22 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHFranklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.