Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 2004, 8:28 PM EDT for Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 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
- May 19, 2004, 8:28 PM EDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2004, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- 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 00:46 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 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 200029 FFWRAH NCC167-200230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 828 PM EDT WED MAY 19 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... STANLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1030 PM EDT * AT 828 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR ALBEMARLE. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE FLOODING AROUND... ALBEMARLE ALONG TOWN CREEK... AUSTIN MILLS ALONG LONG CREEK... MOUNTAIN CREEK NORTH OF ALBEMARLE NEAR HIGHWAY 740. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER IS USUALLY DEEPER THAN IT APPEARS. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP MOST VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. $$ WSS/BL
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KRAH 200118 FFSRAH NCC167-200230- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 911 PM EDT WED MAY 19 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR STANLY COUNTY UNTIL 1030 PM EDT... AT 910 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN OVER STANLY COUNTY... IN THE VICINITY OF ALBEMARLE. RADAR ESTIMATES OF UP TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AROUND ALBEMARLE SINCE 730 PM. AT 9 PM... STANLY COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED STREET FLOODING THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF ALBEMARLE AND ON SECTIONS OF HIGHWAY 52 NORTH OF THE CITY... BUT ROADS WERE NOT CLOSED DUE TO HIGHS WATER AS OF YET. CREEKS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING FROM THESE HEAVY RAINS INCLUDE MOUNTAIN CREEK... TOWN CREEK AND LONG CREEK. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER IS USUALLY DEEPER THAN IT APPEARS. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP MOST VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS. THOSE LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS OR NEARBY FLOODING CREEKS AND STREAM SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. $$ WSS
000 WGUS72 KRAH 200240 FFSRAH NCC167-200300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1035 PM EDT WED MAY 19 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR STANLY COUNTY ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 1030 PM EDT... THE THUNDERSTORMS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HEAVY RAIN THAT CAUSED FLASH FLOODING AROUND ALBEMARLE DIMINISHED AROUND 10 PM. THUS THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. STANLY COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED AT 1015 PM NUMEROUS ROADS IN THE CITY OF ALBEMARLE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. FOUR WATER RESCUES HAD TO BE CARRIED OUT. TWO RESCUES INVOLVED CARS STALLED IN HIGH WATER WHILE TWO RESIDENCES HAD TO BE EVACUATED DUE TO HIGH WATER. NO INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED. HIGH WATER ACROSS THE CITY OF ALBEMARLE AND AREAS JUST NORTH OF TOWN WILL SLOWLY RECEDE THROUGH 12 MIDNIGHT. A REMINDER... MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER IS USUALLY DEEPER THAN IT APPEARS. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP MOST VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. $$ WSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 23 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.