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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 15, 2001Bladen County, Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2001, 9:44 PM EDT for Bladen County, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 106 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 15, 2001, 9:44 PM EDT (01:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2001, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 106 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bladen County, NC, Robeson County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 1030 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 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 KILM 160144
FFWILM
NCC017-155-160330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
944 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BLADEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
  ROBESON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT

* AT 929 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 6 MILES WEST OF TAR HEEL...OR
  ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF LUMBERTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF 
ROBESON THROUGH 1000 PM...DEPOSITING AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES OF 
RAINFALL. THE CLUSTER OF STORMS WILL THEN MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF BLADEN 
COUNTY THROUGH 11 PM...POTENTIALLY DEPOSTING ANOTHER 1 TO 3 INCHES 
ACROSS THE REGION.  

ROBESON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED SEVERAL ST PAULS ROADWAYS FLOODED 
WITH WATER ENTERING AUTOMOBILES. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 
DOPPLER RADAR HAD INDICATED IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD 
ALREADY FALLEN DURING THE PAST 3 HOURS IN THIS AREA.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 
STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...ROADS AND 
FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE 
SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
WILMINGTON NC.

.END

$$
DCH/TM/DL


LAT...LON 3495 7906 3470 7943 3448 7894 3438 7829
          3453 7827 3472 7838 3483 7854

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 10:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Bladen	37 min
Jun 16, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick	40 min
Jun 16, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	51 min

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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.