Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2004, 4:54 PM EDT for Nash County, North Carolina. It was in force for 96 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 28, 2004, 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Nash County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1441 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KRAH 282055 FFWRAH NCC127-282230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 454 PM EDT WED JUL 28 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NASH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 454 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CENTRAL NASH COUNTY. BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN WEST OF NASHVILLE. HIGHWAY 581 NORTH HEADING INTO SPRING HOPE IS IMPASSABLE. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE FLOODING AROUND... CASTALIA... DORTCHES... MOMEYER... NASHVILLE... RED OAK... SAMARIA... SPRING HOPE... STRICKLAND CROSSROADS... 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. LAT...LON 3602 7780 3580 7797 3583 7823 3610 7807 $$ BL/WSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 4:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Scotland | 119 min |
| Jul 28, 5:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 95 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.