Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Watches in 2008
Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood watch at Jun 22, 2008, 10:22 PM EDT for 11 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2008, 10:22 PM EDT (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2008, 1:14 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Orange County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Stanly County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 960 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jun 22, 10:05 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 10:05 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 802 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 2008 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-230930- PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE- ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-WAKE- JOHNSTON-WILSON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE-ANSON- RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- 802 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH THROUGH 12 MIDNIGHT. THE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ANOTHER ROUND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE MONDAY EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH A PRIMARY THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 1...INCLUDING THE TRIANGLE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS THIS EVENING AND AGAIN ON MONDAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 7:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 732 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 2008 NCZ038-073-230030- DAVIDSON-STANLY- 732 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 2008 ...STRONG SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS DAVIDSON AND STANLY COUNTIES THROUGH 830 PM EDT... AT 732 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM HARRISBURG TO KANNAPOLIS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS STANLY AND SOUTHERN DAVIDSON COUNTIES. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR FINGER AROUND 755 PM EDT...PLYLER...RICHFIELD AND HIGH ROCK AROUND 805 PM EDT...NEW LONDON AROUND 810 PM EDT...ALBEMARLE AROUND 815 PM EDT...BADIN AND DENTON AROUND 825 PM EDT. GUSTY WINDS VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS EXCEEDING ONE INCH DURING THE NEXT HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED IN THESE AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION TO AVOID HYDROPLANING. JO
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 7:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 755 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 2008 NCZ023-230100- ALAMANCE- 755 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS ALAMANCE COUNTY THROUGH 900 PM EDT... AT 755 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELON COLLEGE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF BURLINGTON... MOVING EAST AT 18 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...ELON COLLEGE... ALAMANCE...GLEN RAVEN...BURLINGTON...GRAHAM...GRAHAM. VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS EXCEEDING ONE INCH DURING THE NEXT HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED IN THESE AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION TO AVOID HYDROPLANING. JO
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 8:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 51 min |
| Jun 22, 9:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Alamance | 96 min |
| Jun 22, 11:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Stanly | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Richmond | 50 min |
| Jun 23, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Randolph | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 64 min |
| Jun 23, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 38 min |
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Flash Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2008Every flash flood watch in 2008
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.