Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 2002, 6:56 PM EDT for Harnett 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
- Aug 27, 2002, 6:56 PM EDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2002, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harnett County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 272256 FFWRAH NCC085-280100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 654 PM EDT TUE AUG 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HARNETT COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 654 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL OVER THE SOUTH HALF OF HARNETT COUNTY ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF LILLINGTON...AND APPROACHING ERWIN DUNN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO THREE INCHES MAY HAVE FALLEN SINCE 530 PM. EXPECT SIGNIFICANT RISES ALONG THE UPPER LITTLE RIVER AND THE LOWER LITTLE RIVER. SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS. $$ LAT...LON 3549 7866 3528 7858 3522 7895 3544 7897 12
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KRAH 280016 FFSRAH NCC085-280100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 811 PM EDT TUE AUG 27 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR HARNETT COUNTY UNTIL 9 PM EDT... THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS EXITING THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF HARNETT COUNTY AT 810 PM. THE HARNETT COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED THAT A FEW STREETS IN THE CITY OF DUNN WERE IMPASSABLE DUE TO HIGH WATER. MOTORISTS IN THE EAST AND SOUTH SECTIONS OF HARNETT COUNTY NEED TO AVOID AREAS KNOWN TO FLOOD DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS. WHILE THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ABATED SOME SINCE 745 PM...THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS HARNETT COUNTY THROUGH THE REST OF THE EVENING HOURS AND POSSIBLY WELL INTO THE NIGHT. THUS...ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS MAY NEED TO BE ISSUED. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ 12
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 10:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Halifax, Nash | 3 hr |
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.