Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 2001, 5:03 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 87 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
- Aug 11, 2001, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Duplin County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KMHX 112104 FFWMHX NCC061-112230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 503 PM EDT SAT AUG 11 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 503 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL FLOODING DOWNPOURS FROM KORNEGAY TO 6 MILES NORTH OF KENANSVILLE. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN AND AROUND... KORNEGAY ALBERTSON NORTHERN KENANSVILLE. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ LAT...LON 3503 7777 3502 7803 3513 7788 3510 7775 8
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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 11, 2:48 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 2:48 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 248 PM EDT SAT AUG 11 2001 WEAKNESS ACROSS AREA TODAY AS SEEN ON WV WAS ENOUGH TO DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE AND RESULT IN MORE SHOWER/TSTM ACTIVITY THAN ANTICIPATED. PERHAPS MORNING SOUNDING WAS NOT THAT FAR OFF AFTER ALL. UPPER TROF WILL DIG ACROSS THE EAST COAST THRU TUE. MODELS ARE ALL IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT TODAY...WILL PREFER AVN FOR DETAILS WHICH VERIFIED BETTER THAN YESTERDAYS ETA. WILL CONTINUE 20 OR 30 POP TONIGHT...MAINLY FOR A FEW LEFT OVER SHOWERS AND TSTMS FROM THIS AFTERNOON. SFC BNDRY WILL REMAIN WELL WEST OF THE AREA ON SUN...WITH SEA BREEZE BEING MAIN FOCUS FOR SHOWERS/TSTMS ACROSS OUR AREA. WILL CARRY 30 POPS FOR THE DAY ON SUN. WILL AGAIN KEEP 20 TO 30 POPS SUN NIGHT. UPPER TROF DIGS A BIT MORE AND BNDRY ENTERS CNTRL PART OF STATE ON MON. WILL UP POPS TO 40 ON MON. HIGHS ON SUN WILL AGAIN BE AROUND 90 BUT HEAT INDEXES SHOULD BE BELOW 105 SO CAN FINALLY DROP HEAT ADVISORY. MORE CLOUDS AND SHOWERS WILL LOWER TEMPS ON MON...WITH HIGHS IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S. IN THE EXTENDED...WILL CARRY HIGH CHANCE POPS ON TUE WITH BNDRY STALLING ACROSS ERN NC. WITH BNDRY STALLED IN VICINITY AND TROFFING ALONG THE EAST COAST WILL CONTINUE CHANCE POPS THROUGH WED. RIDGING RETURNS ON THU AND FRI WITH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS AND LOWER POPS. FRONT MAY AFFECT THE AREA AGAIN NEXT SAT. CWF...CURRENTLY ITS PRETTY WINDY FRM NR HAT ON NORTH TO THE VA BORDER. THIS SITUATION SHLD NOT IMPROVE TNT AS LO LVL NOCTURNAL JET WILL AID IN THE MIXING PROCESS. WILL HAVE A SMALL CRAFT ADVY UP FROM OCRACOKE INLET NORTHWARD SO DSLN7 IS IN THE ADVY. ACRS THE SNDS AND THE SRN WTRS WILL CALL IT SMALL CRAFT SHLD EXER CAUTION WITH SPDS ARND 20 KT. .MHX...NONE. BANDY/GATES
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 4:48 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
NCZ090-091-112200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 448 PM EDT SAT AUG 11 2001 ...TORRENTIAL RAINS OVER DUPLIN AND LENOIR COUNTIES... SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS INLAND...ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS OVER PORTIONS OF DUPLIN AND LENOIR COUNTIES LATE THIS AFTERNOON. AT 455 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINS IN A BAND FROM KORNEGAY AND ALBERTSON IN DUPLIN COUNTY...NORTHEAST TO PINK HILL AND DEEP RUN IN LENOIR COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES AN HOUR WILL OCCUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND POSSIBLE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. THE STORMS ARE SLOWLY BUILDING TO THE NORTHEAST...AND COULD AFFECT KINSTON AND GRANGERS BEFORE 6 PM. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED NOT TO CROSS WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. RESIDENTS IN LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD WATCH FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A FLOOD WARNING IS ISSUED...OR FLOODING OCCURS. ELARDO
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.