Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2002, 5:55 AM EDT for Pamlico 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 31, 2002, 5:55 AM EDT (09:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2002, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pamlico County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:57 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 424 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KMHX 310955 FFWMHX NCC137-311300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 554 AM EDT SAT AUG 31 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PAMLICO COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 900 AM EDT * AT 554 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL FLOODING DOWNPOURS 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ORIENTAL...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN AND AROUND... ORIENTAL. PAMLICO. WHORTONSVILLE...AND...MERRITT. FLORENCE. MARIBEL. MESIC. OTHER LOCATIONS THAT CAN EXPECT FLOODING INCLUDE ALLIANCE... ARAPAHOE...HOBUCKEN...LOWLAND...MINNESOTT BEACH...OLYMPIA AND SILVER HILL. 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. 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. $$ 8
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KMHX 311136 FFSMHX NCC137-311300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...TO CONTINUE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 734 AM EDT SAT AUG 31 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PAMLICO COUNTY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM EDT... AT 734 AM EDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN AT TIMES CONTINUED OVER PAMLICO...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF ORIENTAL...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN AND AROUND... PAMLICO...AND...MERRITT. WHORTONSVILLE. FLORENCE. MARIBEL. MESIC...AND...VANDEMERE. HOBUCKEN. OTHER LOCATIONS THAT CAN EXPECT FLOODING INCLUDE LOWLAND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ LAT...LON 3501 7673 3500 7651 3529 7647 3531 7674 8
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 1:33 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 42 min | |
| Aug 31, 2:49 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 41 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.