Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Raleigh, NC

Issued

Sep 18, 2002, 6:26 PM EDT (22:26 UTC)

Expired

Sep 18, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT

In force

94 min

Issued by

NWS Raleigh, NC

Area

Whole counties

County Forsyth County, NC

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WGUS52 KRAH 182226
FFWRAH
NCC067-190000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
623 PM EDT WED SEP 18 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS EXTENDED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FORSYTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 623 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING MAINLY OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF FORSYTH 
  COUNTY...INCLUDING LEWISVILLE AND CLEMMONS. 

* THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPING OVER THE WARNED AREA...
  RESULTING IN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL.

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.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS HIGH WATER IN A VEHICLE OR ON FOOT

$$

LAT...LON 3624 8021 3601 8021 3598 8039 3608 8047
          3624 8043

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000 
WGUS72 KRAH 190011
FFSRAH
NCC067-190100-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
759 PM EDT WED SEP 18 2002

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT EARLIER THIS EVENING FOR FORSYTH 
COUNTY HAS NOW EXPIRED.  

HEAVY RAINS HAVE TAPERED OFF TO MOSTLY LIGHT SHOWERS AND CREEK 
LEVELS ARE RECEDING.  HOWEVER...WATER MAY YET BE COVERING SOME ROADS 
IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY...PARTICULARLY AROUND PFAFFTOWN.

RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW THAT THREE TO SIX INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 
SINCE 400 PM THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS A LARGE PORTION OF CENTRAL AND 
WESTERN FORSYTH COUNTY.  THE HEAVIEST APPEAR TO HAVE OCCURRED FROM 
NEAR LEWISVILLE AND PFAFFTOWN TO NEAR STANLEYVILLE...NORTH AND WEST 
OF WINSTON-SALEM.

SOME ROADS HAVE BEEN FLOODED AND MAY CONTINUE TO BE IMPASSABLE UNTIL 
WATERS RECEDE LATER THIS EVENING. IN PARTICULAR... CONRAD... 
SAWMILL...GRAPEVINE...AND ROBINHOOD ROADS...ALL NEAR PFAFFTOWN HAVE 
HAD REPORTS OF FLOODING.

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 
DANGERS OF WATER ON HIGHWAYS. 

$$
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Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.