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Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 16, 2003Stanly County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 2003, 8:47 AM EDT for Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 88 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 16, 2003, 8:47 AM EDT (12:47 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2003, 10:15 AM EDT
In force
88 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 12:47 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, 0.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2003-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1094 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2003-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1094 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
880 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS52 KRAH 161251
FFWRAH
NCC167-161415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
847 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 AM EDT

* THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND 
MOVE SOUTHEAST OVER STANLY COUNTY THROUGH MID MORNING. ONE TO TWO 
INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN DURING THE PAST HOUR AT SOME LOCATIONS... 
AND AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES MAY BE EXPECTED THROUGH 10 AM.
FLOODING MAY BE EXPECTED ON SMALLER STREAMS DRAINING INTO THE ROCKY 
RIVER...INCLUDING BEAR AND LONG CREEKS.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...RICHFIELD...PLYLER...NORWOOD...
LOCUST...BADIN...ALBEMARLE.

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.

SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT
ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS. THOSE LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE
AREAS OR NEARBY FLOODING CREEKS AND STREAM SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER
GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

$$

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1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS72 KRAH 161330
FFSRAH
NCC167-161430-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
926 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR STANLY COUNTY
UNTIL 1015 AM...

RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER OVER STANLY 
COUNTY...ESPECIALLY OVER EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY...THROUGH 
1015 AM. RAINFALL RANGING BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES HAVE BEEN 
WIDESPREAD AROUND AND NORTH OF ALBEMARLE...WHERE SOME SIDE STREETS 
HAVE BEGUN TO EXPERIENCE MINOR FLOODING. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO 
INCHES ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 1015 AM.

IN ALBEMARLE...TOWN CREEK IS SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING AND CAN CAUSE 
FLOODING OF HIGHWAY 52 DOWNTOWN. FLOODING IS ALSO LIKELY AROUND 
DELCO PLAZA AND FROM COLONIAL DRIVE TO QUENBY MALL.

OTHER LOCATIONS THREATENED WITH FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE... 
RICHFIELD...PLYLER...NORWOOD...LOCUST...AND BADIN. FLOODING WILL 
ALSO BE POSSIBLE ON ROADS AND LOWLYING AREAS ALONG LONG AND TOWN 
CREEKS AS WELL AS THE ROCKY RIVER.

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.

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 9:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHMontgomery80 min
Aug 16, 10:02 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHStanly118 min
Aug 16, 6:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHStanly109 min

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.