Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001

Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 16, 2001Nash County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2001, 7:45 PM EDT for Nash 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, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2001, 10:45 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Nash County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 166 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2001-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 473 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2001-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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 162348
FFWRAH
NCC127-170245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT

* AT 745 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED    
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO NASH COUNTY
  FROM THE NORTH AND FROM THE WEST. 

* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL 
  IN MUCH OF THE COUNTY BEGINNING BEFORE 800 PM. FLASH FLOODING
  WILL RESULT DUE TO THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUND.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. STAY AWAY F
ROM
SWOLLEN CREEKS AND STREAMS. 

$$

BADGETT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 8:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHHalifax3 hr
Jun 15, 10:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHHalifax3 hr
Jun 16, 3:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHEdgecombe4 hr
Jun 16, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHoke53 min
Jun 16, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland44 min
Jun 16, 6:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHCumberland2 hr
Jun 16, 6:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHEdgecombe6 hr
Jun 16, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston65 min
Jun 16, 7:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHHalifax3 hr
Jun 16, 7:43 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHWake2 hr
Jun 16, 7:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHWayne3 hr

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.