Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2005, 10:07 PM EDT for Greene County, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 83 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2005, 10:07 PM EDT (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2005, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Greene County, NC, Lenoir County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 10:10 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Snow Hill, NC | WIDESPREAD FLOODING REPORTED ACROSS GREENE COUNTY |
| Jul 22, 10:30 PM EDT | HEAVY RAIN 6.51 | Kinston, NC | SINCE 4PM EDT. REPORTED BY KINSTON MESO-NET SPOTTER |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 2220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 KMHX 230209 FFWMHX NCC079-107-230330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1007 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LENOIR COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA GREENE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1130 PM EDT * AT 1006 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINS WHICH COULD LEAD TO ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LINDELL TO 11 MILES WEST OF MOSS HILL...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF SNOW HILL TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BROGDEN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE NEAR... LA GRANGE AROUND 1025 PM EDT... SNOW HILL AROUND 1040 PM EDT... LIZZIE AROUND 1050 PM EDT... MAURY AROUND 1055 PM EDT... HOOKERTON AROUND 1100 PM EDT... ORMONDSVILLE AROUND 1105 PM EDT... ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 1130 PM. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3558 7781 3516 7796 3509 7750 3546 7737 $$ 20
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KMHX 230313 FFSMHX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1112 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2005 NCC079-107-230330- LENOIR NC-GREENE NC- 1112 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1130 PM EDT FOR GREENE AND LENOIR COUNTIES... AT 1107 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING MODERATE RAINS WHICH MAY LEAD TO ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3558 7781 3516 7796 3509 7750 3546 7737 $$ 20
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 8:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Greene, Lenoir | 119 min |
| Jul 23, 1:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 38 min | |
| Jul 23, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 24 min | |
| Jul 23, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 23 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.