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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 28, 2002Carteret County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2002, 1:05 PM EDT for Carteret 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: Aug 28, 2002, 1:05 PM EDT (17:05 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 2002, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Carteret County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:06 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 334 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -176 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 451 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS52 KMHX 281705
FFWMHX
NCC031-282000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
105 PM EDT WED AUG 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 1254 PM EDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLOODING ALONG HIGHWAY  
  70 IN MOREHEAD CITY.

* FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN AND AROUND...
   MOREHEAD CITY...AND...ATLANTIC BEACH.
   
HEAVY RAIN MOVING ONSHORE WILL ALSO PRODUCE FLOODING IN AND        
AROUND ATLANTIC...BEAUFORT...BOGUE...CAPE CARTERET...CEDAR 
POINT...EMERALD ISLE...NEWPORT...PELETIER...STACY AND STRAITS. 
HIGHWAY 70 AND ADJACENT ROADWAYS IN MOREHEAD CITY...ALONG HIGHWAY 24 
IN WESTERN CARTERET COUNTY...AND LOCATIONS ALONG HIGHWAY 58 FROM 
PINE KNOLL SHORES TO SALTER PATH...ARE PARTICULARLY SUSCEPTIBLE DUE 
TO RECENT AND FUTURE HEAVY RAINFALL. 

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND 
IMMEDIATELY. 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.

MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE. IF YOUR
VEHICLE STALLS...ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR
RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

$$

LAT...LON 3468 7714 3461 7673 3461 7650 3495 7631
          3497 7660 3484 7664 3483 7707

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS72 KMHX 281836
FFSMHX
NCC031-282000-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
235 PM EDT WED AUG 28 2002

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CARTERET COUNTY REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 400 PM EDT...

AT 235 PM EDT...SHOWERS OCCASIONALLY PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS 
CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF CARTERET COUNTY. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING 
SLOWLY NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. 

POOR DRAINAGE AND URBAN FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN AND AROUND...
   PINE KNOLL SHORES.
   MOREHEAD CITY.
   NEWPORT.
   BEAUFORT.
   CAPE CARTERET.

NEARLY 5 INCHES OF RAIN...4.97 INCHES...HAS FALLEN AT THE NATIONAL 
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN NEWPORT SINCE MIDNIGHT. ALTHOUGH ALL MAIN 
COUNTY ROADS ARE OPEN...DEEP PONDING WAS STILL OCCURRING AND 
CREATING DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. DITCHES AND CULVERTS ARE 
FILLED AND ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS WILL LEAD TO MORE FLOODING OF 
ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. UP TO ONE HALF TO 1 INCH OF 
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 4 PM.

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.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...AND HIGHWAYS. ADDITIONALLY...ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG
THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT
TO FLOODING.

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.

LAT...LON 3469 7709 3465 7654 3505 7618 3507 7654
          3495 7664 3485 7675 3482 7715

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 28, 10:09 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Carteret	111 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2002 Every 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.