Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2004, 3:25 PM EDT for Johnston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2004, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2004, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Johnston County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KRAH 041928 FFWRAH NCC101-042200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 325 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JOHNSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 325 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CENTRAL JOHNSTON COUNTY. * THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPING AROUND... FOUR OAKS... JOHNSTON COUNTY AIRPORT... SELMA... SMITHFIELD... WILSON MILLS... LITTLE RIVER AT WEAVER ROAD NEAR I-95 PRONE TO FLOODING. SOUTH OF I-95, AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING INCLUDE CROSSINGS WITH BAGLEY RD, COLLEGE STREET, LIZZIE MILL ROAD, RAINS CROSSROADS ROAD, RAINS MILL ROAD, AND OLD ROCK QUARRY ROAD. 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. $$ MS/RA
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KRAH 042127 FFSRAH NCC101-042200- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 520 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR JOHNSTON COUNTY UNTIL 6PM EDT... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS JOHNSTON COUNTY...ESPECIALLY FROM SMITHFIELD EAST. FLOODING IS BEING REPORTED IN SMITHFIELD AND SELMA. LOCATIONS THREATENED WITH FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...WILSON MILLS... SMITHFIELD...SELMA...MOCKS...MICRO...JOHNSTON COUNTY AIRPORT...FOUR OAKS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS. THOSE LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS OR NEARBY FLOODING CREEKS AND STREAM SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. $$ MS/RA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 11:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston | 27 min |
| Jun 4, 11:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 12:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wilson | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 12:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 1:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 23 min |
| Jun 4, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 1:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 1:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne, Wilson | 95 min |
| Jun 4, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 2:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Lee | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 118 min |
| Jun 4, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 46 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.