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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 15, 2001Halifax County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2001, 10:48 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 15, 2001, 10:48 PM EDT (02:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2001, 2:00 AM 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 02:52 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 00:00Z, 2.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2001-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1030 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2001-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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 KRAH 160249
FFWRAH
NCC083-160600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1048 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 200 AM EDT

* AT 1048 PM EDT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH
  FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.

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

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.

ABSOLUTELY DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER
COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS HIGH WATER IN A VEHICLE OR ON FOOT!

$$

JWaC

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 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, 7:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHNash3 hr
Jun 16, 7:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHWayne3 hr

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.