Flash Flood Warning 83, NWS Raleigh, NC

Issued

Aug 16, 2003, 6:11 PM EDT (22:11 UTC)

Expired

Aug 16, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT

In force

109 min

Issued by

NWS Raleigh, NC

Area

Whole counties

County Stanly County, NC

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WGUS52 KRAH 162213
FFWRAH
NCC167-170000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
611 PM 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 800 PM EDT

* AT 610 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM NEW LONDON TO BADIN AND 
ALBEMARLE IN STANLY COUNTY.  

* THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WERE 
REDEVELOPING AND CONTINUOUSLY MOVING OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS. 
LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED ARE... 
ALBEMARLE... NEW LONDON... AND BADIN. 

RADAR INDICATES THAT RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR
WERE FALLING OVER AREAS THAT HAD ALREADY RECEIVED 3 TO 5 INCHES
OF RAIN EARLIER TODAY. 

THIS WILL PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING ESPECIALLY FROM ALBEMARLE TO NEW 
LONDON AND BADIN. THIS IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. 
DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOOD WATERS. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF YOU ARE IN 
A FLOOD PRONE AREA. 
$$

BADGETT

000 
WGUS72 KRAH 162322
FFSRAH
NCC167-170015-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
722 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR STANLY COUNTY
THROUGH 800 PM...

FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED TO BE ONGOING OVER NORTHEAST STANLY 
COUNTY FROM NEW LONDON TO BADIN. THE BADIN AREA HAS BEEN HIT 
PARTICULARLY HARD. EVACUATIONS WERE ONGOING IN THE STANLY COUNTY 
COUNTRY CLUB AREA OF BADIN. NUMEROUS ROADS WERE CLOSED INCLUDING FALLS 
ROAD... DEWEY STREET... MOUNTAIN CREEK ROAD AND HIGHWAY 740 BETWEEN 
NEW LONDON AND BADIN. 

AT 720 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER 
NORTHERN AND EASTERN STANLY COUNTY WERE SHOWING A WEAKENING TREND. 
HOWEVER... RADAR INDICATED THAT 3 TO 3.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD ALREADY 
FALLEN IN THE BADIN AREA BETWEEN 600 PM AND 700 PM. THUNDERSTORMS... 
ALTHOUGH WEAKENING... WERE STILL DEVELOPING UPSTREAM TO THE 
NORTHWEST... THEN MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH ACROSS NEW 
LONDON AND BADIN. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE 
FLASH FLOODING. ALL THIS RAIN WAS IN ADDITION TO THE RAIN THAT 
PRODUCED FLASH FLOODING EARLIER TODAY... MAKING THIS A SERIOUS 
FLASH FLOOD HAZARD TO LIFE AND PROPERTY.  

THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOOD WATERS 
OR WHERE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION HAS CLOSED ROADS. KEEP 
CHILDREN AWAY FROM THE SWOLLEN STREAMS. 

LOCATIONS WITH WITH FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE NEW LONDON AND BADIN... AND
JUST TO THE NORTHEAST OF ALBEMARLE. 

REMEMBER MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR 
VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES 
CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND 
IMMEDIATELY. 

$$

BADGETT

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.