Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2002, 11:01 PM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 119 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
- Jul 5, 2002, 11:01 PM EDT (03:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2002, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lenoir County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:04 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 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 1419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 060301 FFWMHX NCC107-060500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 1100 PM EDT FRI JUL 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LENOIR COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 100 AM EDT * AT 1100 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY OVER KINSTON. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT ANOTHER 1 TO POSSIBLY 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN IS LIKELY THROUGH 100 AM. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLOODING. * FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN AND AROUND... ADKINS BRANCH. 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. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ LAT...LON 3526 7770 3520 7759 3526 7748 3536 7759 6
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KMHX 060406 FFSMHX NCC107-060500- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 1206 AM EDT SAT JUL 6 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LENOIR COUNTY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT... AT 1205 AM EDT...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER GREENE COUNTY CONTINUE TO DROP SLOWLY SOUTH OVER EASTERN LENOIR COUNTY. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL DROP ANOTHER 1/2 INCH OR SO OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL. FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN AND AROUND... KINSTON. THE GREATEST THREAT OF FLOODING WILL BE ALONG ADKINS BRANCH ON THE EAST SIDE OF KINSTON. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. 5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 53 min |
| Jul 5, 8:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 67 min | |
| Jul 5, 10:14 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 91 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.