Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 2004, 2:41 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 94 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2004, 2:41 PM EDT (18:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2004, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 1908 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 KMHX 111841 FFWMHX NCC133-112015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 241 PM EDT SUN JUL 11 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 239 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR JACKSONVILLE...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE NEAR... JACKSONVILLE BY 250 PM EDT... HALF MOON BY 305 PM EDT... NEW RIVER AIR STATION BY 315 PM EDT... VERONA BY 330 PM EDT... CATHERINE LAKE BY 350 PM EDT... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3471 7725 3488 7731 3483 7763 3461 7755 $$ 5
1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS72 KMHX 111928
FFSMHX
NCC133-112015-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
328 PM EDT SUN JUL 11 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR ONSLOW
COUNTY...
AT 325 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING IN ONSLOW COUNTY. 2 TO 3 FEET
OF WATER HAS BEEN REPORTED ON SEVERAL ROADS IN JACKSONVILLE. THESE
STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM SNEADS FERRY TO 8
MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAWS RUN...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES
NORTHEAST OF NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH
TOPSAIL BEACH...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH.
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE NEAR...
SNEADS FERRY AROUND 330 PM EDT...
FOLKSTONE AROUND 330 PM EDT...
HOLLY RIDGE AROUND 340 PM EDT...
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER
TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO
ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.
LAT...LON 3459 7723 3488 7731 3493 7760 3473 7770
3446 7756
$$
10The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene | 36 min |
| Jul 11, 1:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Craven | 97 min |
| Jul 11, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 43 min |
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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.