Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT for Moore County, North Carolina. It was in force for 75 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, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2003, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 75 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 23:44 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, 11.8 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 092351 FFWRAH NCC125-100100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 745 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MOORE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 745 PM EDT VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN MOORE COUNTY. TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MOORE COUNTY AROUND ABERDEEN DURING THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 900 PM. FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ON ROUTES 15 AND 501 AND 211 AROUND ABERDEEN. * SOME AREAS AFFECTED INCLUDE...FOXFIRE...TAYLORTOWN...PINEHURST... ABERDEEN. SOME STREAMS AFFECTED INCLUDE DROWNING CREEK...DEEP CREEK...AND HORSE CREEK MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS DRIVING AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. NEVER ALLOW CHILDREN TO PLAY NEAR STORM DRAINS OR NEAR FLOODED CREEKS AND STREAMS. $$ 13
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KRAH 100017 FFSRAH NCC125-100115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 813 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN MOORE COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM... THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE NORTH INTO SOUTHERN MOORE COUNTY. UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN SINCE 500 PM...AND AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 900 PM. SOME AREAS AFFECTED INCLUDE...FOXFIRE...TAYLORTOWN...PINEHURST... ABERDEEN. SOME STREAMS AFFECTED INCLUDE DROWNING CREEK...DEEP CREEK...AND HORSE CREEK. FLOODING WILL BE MORE DIFFICULT TO SEE NOW THAT THE SUN HAS SET. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. NEVER ALLOW CHILDREN TO PLAY NEAR STORM DRAINS OR NEAR FLOODED CREEKS AND STREAMS. $$ 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, 6:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Moore | 90 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.