Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 68, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2003, 6:15 PM EDT for Moore County, North Carolina. It was in force for 90 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
- Aug 9, 2003, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moore County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 1271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KRAH 092217 FFWRAH NCC125-092345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 615 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MOORE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 745 PM EDT * AT 615 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EASTERN MOORE COUNTY. * THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPING ALONG ROUTES 15 AND 501...WHICH INCLUDES VASS...SOUTHERN PINES...AND ABERDEEN. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING FLOODING OR LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT DRIVE ONTO FLOODED ROADS. NEVER ALLOW CHILDREN TO PLAY NEAR STORM DRAINS OR NEAR FLOODED CREEKS AND STREAMS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CREATE RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER THAT CAN EASILY SWEEP A CHILD DOWNSTREAM. THE BANKS OF MANY CREEKS AND STREAM MAY ALSO BE WEAENED AND PRONE TO COLLAPSE. $$ 13
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KRAH 092312 FFSRAH NCC125-092345- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 707 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN MOORE COUNTY THOUGH 745 PM... EMERGENCY OFFICIALS REPORT THAT POTENTIALLY SERIOUS FLOODING WAS OCCURRING ON CRANE CREEK AND THE LOWER LITTLE RIVER EAST OF VASS. UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER EASTERN MOORE COUNTY... GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF THE ROUTE 15 AND 501 CORRIDOR. ADDITIONAL HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY BE EXPECTED...PRODUCING UP TO AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN...THROUGH 800 PM. LOCATIONS THREATENED WITH FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...WHISPERING PINES...VASS...SOUTHERN PINES...PINEHURST...PINEBLUFF...CAMERON... ABERDEEN. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING FLOODING OR LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT LET CHILDREN PLAY IN FLOODED AREAS. DRIVERS SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION...DO NOT DRIVE ONTO ROADS WHICH ARE COVERED BY FLOODWATERS. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING MAY BE EXTENDED...STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. $$ 13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 8:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Franklin | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 8:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Lee | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 8:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 10:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Franklin | 88 min |
| Aug 9, 7:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Moore | 75 min |
| Aug 9, 7:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.