Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2001, 2:53 PM EDT for Chatham County, Lee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 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
- Jun 1, 2001, 2:53 PM EDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2001, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chatham County, NC, Lee County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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, 6.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KRAH 011855 FFWRAH NCC037-105-012100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 253 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LEE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 253 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. * THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUOUSLY MOVING OVER THE WARNED AREA... RESULTING IN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. PEOPLE ALONG AND NEAR THE DEEP RIVER AND IIS TRIBUTARIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. ? A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. $$ DS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 30 min |
| Jun 1, 12:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lee | 32 min |
| Jun 1, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Wake | 26 min |
| Jun 1, 1:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Lee | 24 min |
| Jun 1, 1:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 1:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham | 16 min |
| Jun 1, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 27 min |
| Jun 1, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 27 min |
| Jun 1, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 25 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001
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.