Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 2, 2016, 8:43 PM EDT for Duplin County, Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 92 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
- Sep 2, 2016, 8:43 PM EDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2016, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Duplin County, NC, Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 9:30 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 E Piney Green, NC | WATER UP TO CAR WINDOWS IN NEIGHBORHOOD ADJACENT TO HORSE SHOE BEND AND ROCKY RUN RD. |
| Sep 2, 9:30 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Holly Ridge, NC | HUDIBURG ST. CLOSED BECAUSE OF WATER ON ROAD IN HOLLY RIDGE |
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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 643 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
870
WGUS52 KMHX 030043
FFWMHX
NCC061-133-030215-
/O.NEW.KMHX.FF.W.0001.160903T0043Z-160903T0215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
843 PM EDT FRI SEP 2 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT
* AT 840 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE
WARNED AREA. 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER THE REGION AND
ADDITIONAL VERY HEAVY RAIN IS MOVING INTO THE AREA. FLASH FLOODING
IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
JACKSONVILLE...WALLACE...WARSAW...HALF MOON...NEW RIVER STATION...
PINEY GREEN...CAMP LEJEUNE CENTER...PUMPKIN CENTER...SWANSBORO...
ROSE HILL...RICHLANDS...BEULAVILLE...KENANSVILLE...HARRELLS...
RICHLANDS SOUTH...HAMMOCKS BEACH STATE PARK...SNEADS FERRY...
SEA VIEW PIER...ALBERT J ELLIS AIRPORT AND HOLLY RIDGE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3444 7752 3448 7758 3472 7768 3471 7798
3473 7802 3471 7813 3474 7820 3490 7815
3505 7816 3491 7740 3486 7723 3465 7711
3464 7712 3453 7719 3444 7735
$$
5The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 8:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 18 min | |
| Sep 2, 9:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Jones, Pamlico | 119 min |
| Sep 2, 9:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 25 min |
| Sep 2, 9:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 14 min |
| Sep 2, 9:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 25 min |
| Sep 2, 9:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Carteret | 92 min |
| Sep 2, 10:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 26 min | |
| Sep 2, 10:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Pamlico, Tyrrell, Washington | 115 min |
| Sep 2, 10:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 2, 10:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 52 min | |
| Sep 2, 11:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Dare, Hyde | 116 min |
| Sep 3, 12:18 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Martin, Pitt, Tyrrell and 1 more | 117 min |
| Sep 3, 12:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Dare, Hyde | 92 min |
| Sep 3, 12:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Dare | 23 min |
| Sep 3, 12:59 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Craven | 24 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:01 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Jones | 24 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Dare | 16 min |
| Sep 3, 1:21 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 39 min | |
| Sep 3, 2:19 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington | 116 min |
| Sep 3, 3:25 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 24 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:38 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Pitt | 28 hr |
| Sep 3, 7:49 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MHX | 4 days | |
| Sep 3, 10:28 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin | 60 hr |
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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.