Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 2004, 8:00 AM EDT for Davidson County, Randolph 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 2004, 8:00 AM EDT (12:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2004, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Davidson County, NC, Randolph County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:00 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 835 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KRAH 081204 FFWRAH NCC057-151-081500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 800 AM EDT WED SEP 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RANDOLPH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA DAVIDSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1100 AM EDT * AT 800 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EASTERN DAVIDSON AND WESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTIES. A BAND OF HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM THOMASVILLE TO NEAR ALBEMARLE WILL MOVE NORTH ACROSS THE AREA CAUSING FLOODING THIS MORNING. ANOTHER BAND OF HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE NORTH ACROSS STANLY COUNTY REACHING THE AREA SHORTLY AFTER 9AM. HEAVY RAINFALL RATES AROUND 1 INCH PER HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED. RANDOLPH STREET IN THOMASVILLE IS ALREADY BEING CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE FLOODING AROUND... ARCHDALE... DENTON... FAIR GROVE... GLENOLA... GUM TREE... LASSITER MILL... MOTLETA... THOMASVILLE... ULAH... 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 3592 7990 3551 7980 3551 8018 3600 8021 $$ 04
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KRAH 081326 FFSRAH NCC057-151-081500- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 922 AM EDT WED SEP 8 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN DAVIDSON AND WESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTIES UNTIL 11 AM... AT 919 AM EDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER BAND OF HEAVY RAIN MOVING NORTH INTO DAVIDSON AND WESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTIES. THIS BAND OF HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM DENTON SOUTH TO WADESBORO AND WAS MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED TO CAUSE FLOODING ESPECIALLY FROM DENTON AND MARTHA NORTH TO THOMASVILLE. THIS SECOND BAND OF HEAVY RAIN WILL REACH THOMASVILLE SHORTLY AFTER 10 AM. LOCATIONS THREATENED WITH FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...DENTON...THOMASVILLE...AND ASHEBORO. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER IS USUALLY DEEPER THAN IT APPEARS. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP MOST VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS. THOSE LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS OR NEARBY FLOODING CREEKS AND STREAM SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. $$ 04
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 4:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Hoke | 36 min |
| Sep 8, 5:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Hoke | 88 min |
| Sep 8, 7:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Anson | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 7:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Stanly | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 8:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 9:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Richmond | 15 min |
| Sep 8, 10:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Anson | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 11:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Randolph, Stanly | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 11:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Lee, Moore | 32 min |
| Sep 8, 11:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Lee | 13 min |
| Sep 8, 12:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 12:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Orange | 27 min |
| Sep 8, 1:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 24 min |
| Sep 8, 1:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Orange, Person | 37 min |
| Sep 8, 1:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Person | 29 min |
| Sep 8, 3:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Hoke | 91 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.