Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 18, 2002, 5:51 PM EDT for Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 84 min. 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 18, 2002, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2002, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stanly County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1538 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS52 KRAH 182151
FFWRAH
NCC167-182315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
549 PM EDT WED SEP 18 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN STANLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 715 PM EDT
* AT 549 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY
HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHERN STANLY COUNTY INCLUDING THE AREAS AROUND
BADIN...NEW LONDON...AND RICHFIELD. RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW RAIN
FALLING AT A RATE OF 2.5 INCHES PER HOUR.
* THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPING OVER THE WARNED AREA...
RESULTING IN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL.
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT
ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS.
ABSOLUTELY DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER
COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
$$
LAT...LON 3550 8018 3537 8006 3532 8026 3539 8035
3548 8028
28The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 12:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 59 min |
| Sep 18, 12:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Chatham | 61 min |
| Sep 18, 2:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Randolph | 108 min |
| Sep 18, 2:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 110 min |
| Sep 18, 3:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Randolph | 116 min |
| Sep 18, 4:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 2 hr |
| Sep 18, 4:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Randolph | 98 min |
| Sep 18, 5:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson | 99 min |
| Sep 18, 5:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 83 min |
| Sep 18, 6:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 94 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.