Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Raleigh, NC
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.
- 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
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. $$ 13
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KRAH 161330 FFSRAH NCC167-161430- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 926 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR STANLY COUNTY UNTIL 1015 AM... RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER OVER STANLY COUNTY...ESPECIALLY OVER EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY...THROUGH 1015 AM. RAINFALL RANGING BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES HAVE BEEN WIDESPREAD AROUND AND NORTH OF ALBEMARLE...WHERE SOME SIDE STREETS HAVE BEGUN TO EXPERIENCE MINOR FLOODING. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 1015 AM. IN ALBEMARLE...TOWN CREEK IS SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING AND CAN CAUSE FLOODING OF HIGHWAY 52 DOWNTOWN. FLOODING IS ALSO LIKELY AROUND DELCO PLAZA AND FROM COLONIAL DRIVE TO QUENBY MALL. OTHER LOCATIONS THREATENED WITH FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE... RICHFIELD...PLYLER...NORWOOD...LOCUST...AND BADIN. FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ON ROADS AND LOWLYING AREAS ALONG LONG AND TOWN CREEKS AS WELL AS THE ROCKY RIVER. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING FLOODING OR LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. $$ 13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 9:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 80 min |
| Aug 16, 10:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 118 min |
| Aug 16, 6:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 109 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.