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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 16, 2001Halifax County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2001, 7:30 PM EDT for Halifax 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: Jun 16, 2001, 7:30 PM EDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2001, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Halifax County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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, 11.5 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: 473 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 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 162331
FFWRAH
NCC083-170230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
730 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 730 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY
  HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* THE GROUND HAS ALREADY BEEN SATURATED BY RECENT RAINFALL IN THE
  WARNED AREA...AND ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL RUNOFF AND CAUSE FLOODING.

$$
JWC

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 Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 16, 4:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 4:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
500 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001

WILL SEND OUT A QUICK UPDATE FOR THE ZONES WITH GREATER PRECENTAGE
OF PRECIP IN THE SOUTH AND LESS AROUND THE TRIANGLE. SUBSIDENCE
REGION BETWEEN THE TROUGH ACROSS THE WESTERN PIEDMONT AND REMNANTS
OF ALLISON WILL MINIMIZE THE POPS IN THE TRIANGLE.

.RAH...NONE

JWC

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 5:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH, NC
542 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0525 PM    ROCKFISH                  NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/16/01   HOKE

Local storm report, Jun 16, 5:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH, NC
546 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

05 36 PM    SPRING LAKE               NC
06/16/01   CUMBERLAND                     NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN
DOWN                                      BY DOWNBURST WINDS

PWB

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

NCZ042-078-089-162315-
JOHNSTON-SAMPSON-WAYNE-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
619 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING OVER JOHNSTON... SAMPSON
AND WAYNE COUNTIES...

CLUSTERS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO
THE COASTAL PLAIN THROUGH 730 PM. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL
AFFECT THE GARLAND... HARRELLS... AND CLINTON AREAS WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
WILL AFFECT ROSEBORO TO SPIVEYS CORNER IN NORTHWEST SAMPSON
COUNTY. IN ADDITION... MUCH OF JOHNSTON COUNTY WILL SEE STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS INCLUDING BENSON... FOUR OAKS... AND THE COATS
CROSSROADS REGION. ALL OF THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ALONG WITH PEA SIZED HAIL.
&&
TAKE SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THUNDER IS NO LONGER HEARD. MOTORISTS
SHOULD BE EXTRA CAUTIOUS DUE TO THE EXCESSIVE RUNOFF DURING THE
HEAVY RAINS.

BADGETT

Local storm report, Jun 16, 6:46 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH, NC
646 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0545 PM    FORT BRAGG                NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/16/01   CUMBERLAND                     TREES BLOWN DOWN ON BRAGG
                                          BLVD. IN ADDITION... A TREE
                                          FELL ON A POWER POLE
                                          CREATING POWER OUTAGES.

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:20 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

NCZ025-041-170515-
DURHAM-WAKE-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
720 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN APPROACHING RALEIGH...
A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN
AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING OVER THE CITY OF RALEIGH THROUGH 800 PM.
THE STORMS WILL ALSO AFFECT THE RALEIGH-DURHAM INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT... MORRISVILLE AND CARY. THE STORMS WILL LIKELY
MOVE INTO THE GARNER AREA BETWEEN 730 PM AND 800 PM.
&&

SEEK SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THUNDER IS NO LONGER HEARD. MOTORISTS BE
ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING ALONG ROADS.

BADGETT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 8:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Halifax	3 hr
Jun 15, 10:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Halifax	3 hr
Jun 16, 3:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Edgecombe	4 hr
Jun 16, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke	53 min
Jun 16, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	44 min
Jun 16, 6:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Cumberland	2 hr
Jun 16, 6:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Edgecombe	6 hr
Jun 16, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	65 min
Jun 16, 7:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Wake	2 hr
Jun 16, 7:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Nash	3 hr
Jun 16, 7:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Wayne	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2001 Every 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.