Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Oct 11, 2002, 6:31 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 11, 2002, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 2002, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Carteret County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 38 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 112231
FFWMHX
NCC031-112330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
630 PM EDT FRI OCT 11 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 730 PM EDT
* AT 630 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL FLOODING DOWNPOURS
OVER NEWPORT...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF HAVELOCK...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN AND AROUND...
NEWPORT.
HARLOWE.
SOUTH RIVER.
MOREHEAD CITY.
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.
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 3533 7617 3502 7634 3525 7635 3497 7642
3471 7679 3470 7698 3476 7706 3483 7700
3484 7675 3489 7663 3498 7666 3500 7652
3509 7639 3549 7632
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, 3:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Martin, Pitt | 3 hr |
| 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, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 44 min |
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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.