Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 2002, 10:41 AM EDT for Halifax County, Nash 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 27, 2002, 10:41 AM EDT (14:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2002, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Halifax County, NC, Nash County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:42 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KRAH 271441 FFWRAH NCC083-127-271745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1039 AM EDT TUE AUG 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN NASH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA HALIFAX COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 145 PM EDT * AT 1039 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. * SHOWERS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPING OVER THE WARNED AREA...RESULTING IN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL NEAR AVENTON...ENFIELD...AND GLENVIEW. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS. $$ LAT...LON 3627 7747 3599 7778 3612 7803 3636 7766 DGS
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KRAH 271642 FFSRAH NCC083-127-271740- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1240 PM EDT TUE AUG 27 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN NASH COUNTY AND HALIFAX COUNTY... VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE LOCATED OVER HALIFAX COUNTY BETWEEN HALIFAX AND SCOTLAND NECK. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE NEAR TILLERY BEFORE 145 PM. THESE HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD INTERSECTIONS...DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ DGS
000 WGUS72 KRAH 271751 FFSRAH NCC083-127-271845- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 150 PM EDT TUE AUG 27 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN NASH AND HALIFAX COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... ...A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE AREA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON... ALTHOUGH THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WHICH CAUSED FLASH FLOODING IN NASH AND HALIFAX COUNTIES IS MOVING OUT OF THE AREA...FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO POSE A THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY. NUMEROUS ROADS ACROSS NORTHERN NASH AND HALIFAX COUNTIES REMAIN CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. ROADS IN ENFIELD...TILLERY...AND SCOTLAND NECK HAVE BEEN CLOSED. SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS MAY CONTINUE TO OVER FLOW THEIR BANKS THIS AFTERNOON. PEOPLE IN THIS AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO USE CAUTION EVEN THOUGH THE RAIN MAY SUBSIDE. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES...OFTEN AFTER THE RAIN HAS ENDED. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. $$ DGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 6:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Harnett | 2 hr |
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.