Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 1, 2002, 2:14 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 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
- Sep 1, 2002, 2:14 PM EDT (18:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2002, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 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 18:13 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 1923 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KMHX 011814 FFWMHX NCC031-012015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 213 PM EDT SUN SEP 1 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 213 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL FLOODING DOWNPOURS OVER BOGUE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF EMERALD ISLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 2 TO 3 INCHES WILL PRODUCE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. * FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN AND AROUND... NEWPORT. HARLOWE. SOUTH RIVER. CAPE CARTERET 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. $$ 5
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KMHX 011852 FFSMHX NCC031-012015- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...TO CONTINUE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 252 PM EDT SUN SEP 1 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WESTERN CARTERET COUNTY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM EDT... AT 251 PM EDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL FLOODING DOWNPOURS CONTINUED 6 MILES WEST OF NEWPORT...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF HAVELOCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO WEAKEN...HOWEVER ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1/2 TO 1 INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 2 TO 3 INCHES HAS OCCURRED OVER PARTS OF WESTERN CARTERET COUNTY. FLOODING WAS REPORTED NORTHWEST OF NEWPORT ALONG LAKE ROAD. FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED... FROM CAPE CARTERET TO JUST NORTHWEST OF NEWPORT. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ 5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 10:21 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 39 min |
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.