Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Oct 11, 2002, 3:48 PM EDT for Martin County, Pitt 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
- Oct 11, 2002, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 2002, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Martin County, NC, Pitt County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1084 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KMHX 111948 FFWMHX NCC117-147-112230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 347 PM EDT FRI OCT 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MARTIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA PITT COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 345 PM EDT...TORRENTIAL FLOODING DOWNPOURS WERE REPORTED OVER PITT AND MARTIN COUNTIES...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN AND AROUND... GREENVILLE...AND...SIMPSON. BRUCE. STOKES. WHITEHURST. ROBERSONVILLE. GOLD POINT...AND...EVERETTS. A LARGE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTH AT 25 MPH. 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. 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. 12 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 12:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Pitt | 32 min |
| Oct 11, 1:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Martin | 37 min |
| Oct 11, 4:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Greene | 2 hr |
| Oct 11, 5:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 24 min |
| Oct 11, 6:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Carteret | 59 min |
| Oct 11, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 44 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.