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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 22, 2004Nash County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 2004, 9:34 PM EDT for Nash County, North Carolina. It was in force for 86 min. 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 22, 2004, 9:34 PM EDT (01:34 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2004, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
86 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Nash County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 166 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2004-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 499 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2004-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
499 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1234 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS52 KRAH 230136
FFWRAH
NCC127-230300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
934 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN NASH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1100 PM EDT

* AT 934 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN NASH COUNTY.

* THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPING OVER BAILEY AND        
  STRICKLAND CROSSROADS OVER SOUTHERN NASH COUNTY PRODUCING          
  TORRENTIAL RAINFALL.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. 
ABSOLUTELY DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER RUNNING ACROSS THE ROAD. TURN 
AROUND. DO NOT DROWN. 

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 8:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWilson26 min
May 22, 8:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHWilson93 min
May 22, 9:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWilson33 min
May 22, 10:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHWilson3 hr
May 22, 10:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHNash2 hr
May 22, 11:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHJohnston113 min
May 23, 12:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham26 min
May 23, 1:51 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHDurham84 min
May 23, 2:26 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHHarnett94 min
May 23, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett25 min
May 23, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWayne32 min
May 23, 4:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett29 min
May 23, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAlamance25 min
May 23, 5:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland25 min
May 23, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMoore33 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.