Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 2004, 7:05 PM EDT for Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 115 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
- May 22, 2004, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2004, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pitt County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 497 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 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 222304 FFWMHX NCC147-230100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 705 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PITT COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 703 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR SIMPSON...OR ABOUT NEAR GREENVILLE. THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES SOUTH OF STOKES BY 735 PM EDT... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. LAT...LON 3570 7741 3552 7738 3560 7717 3574 7725 $$ 5
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KMHX 222341 FFSMHX NCC147-230100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 738 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PITT COUNTY... AT 736 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SIMPSON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF GREENVILLE. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 4 TO 5 INCHES HAS OCCURRED ALONG HIGHWAY 264 FROM GREENVILLE EAST. THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. LAT...LON 3570 7741 3552 7738 3560 7717 3574 7725 $$ 5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 42 min | |
| May 22, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 25 min |
| May 22, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 52 min | |
| May 22, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 29 min |
| May 22, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 41 min |
| May 22, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin | 40 min |
| May 22, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 42 min |
| May 22, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 37 min |
| May 22, 7:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 93 min |
Nearby
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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.