Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 2004, 12:00 PM EDT for Guilford 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, 12:00 PM EDT (16:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2004, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Guilford County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:03 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 6 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 081603 FFWRAH NCC081-081900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1200 PM EDT WED SEP 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GUILFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT NOON EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER WESTERN GUILFORD COUNTY. A BAND OF SHOWERS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM WEST GREENSBORO SOUTH TO HIGH POINT AND WADESBORO WILL MOVE NORTH ACROSS THE AREA. RAINFALL RATES UP TO ONE INCH PER HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED. FLOODING IN PORTIONS OF WEST GREENSBORO WILL WORSEN. * THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPING AROUND... GREENSBORO... HIGH POINT... SUMMERFIELD... INTERSTATE 40 WEST OF GREENSBORO... SOUTH BUFFALO CREEK IS BEGINNING TO THREATEN APARTMENTS IN THE ASHLEY CREEK AREA. LOCATIONS FROM MERRITT DRIVE TO HOLDEN ROAD...PINECROFT ROAD AND HIGHWAY 29 COULD ALSO EXPERIENCE FLOODING. FURTHER DOWNSTREAM WATER WILL RISE IN AND AROUND LATHAM PARK. 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 3624 7972 3591 7973 3591 8004 3627 8004 $$ 04
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KRAH 081635 FFSRAH NCC057-081-151-167-081800- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1230 PM EDT WED SEP 8 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN GUILFORD...EASTERN DAVIDSON...WESTERN RANDOLPH AND EASTERN STANLY COUNTIES UNTIL 2PM... AT 1229 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM THOMASVILLE SOUTH TO DENTON. HEAVY RAIN WITH RAINFALL RATES BETWEEN ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR WILL CAUSE FLOODING ACROSS THOMASVILLE AS WELL AS WESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY. RAIN IS TAPERING OFF OVER STANLY COUNTY HOWEVER MANY CREEKS AND STREAMS BETWEEN AQUADALE AND NORWOOD ARE STILL FLOODING. LOCATIONS THREATENED WITH FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...THOMASVILLE. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER IS USUALLY DEEPER THAN IT APPEARS. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP MOST VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS. THOSE LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS OR NEARBY FLOODING CREEKS AND STREAM SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. $$ 04
000 WGUS72 KRAH 081814 FFSRAH NCC081-081900- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 210 PM EDT WED SEP 8 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR GUILFORD COUNTY UNTIL 3 PM... AT 209 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM MONTICELLO TO FOREST OAKS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. HEAVY RAIN WILL TAPER OFF ACROSS THE ENTIRE COUNTY BY 3 PM. HEAVY HAS ENDED FROM GREENSBORO WEST. HOWEVER EXCESSIVE RUNOFF IS STILL CAUSING SOME FLOODING ALONG BUFFALO CREEK AS WELL AS ALONG HARVEY ROAD AND STANLY ROAD. SEVERAL LOCATIONS ACROSS GREENSBORO HAVE RECEIVED ALMOST 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE LAST HOUR. 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, 8:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Randolph | 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, 12:33 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
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.