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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Raleigh, NC

September 28, 20164 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 28, 2016, 5:05 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr. 5 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 28, 2016, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired: Sep 28, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Cumberland County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Moore County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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 28, 5:30 PM EDT	FLOOD	3 Ene Dunn, NC	WATER OVER GEORGE PERRY LEE RD. REPORT RELAYED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. TIME APPROXIMATE.
Sep 28, 5:30 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	3 Ene Dunn, NC	WATER OVER GEORGE PERRY LEE RD. REPORT RELAYED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. TIME APPROXIMATE.
Sep 28, 6:00 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	1 Se Dunn, NC	SEVERAL ROADS FLOODED NEAR AND SOUTHEAST OF DUNN.
Sep 28, 7:30 PM EDT	FLOOD	2 N Spring Lake, NC	WAPITI DR CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
Sep 28, 7:30 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	2 N Spring Lake, NC	WAPITI DR CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 842 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

As transmitted.

847 
WGUS52 KRAH 282105
FFWRAH
NCC051-085-093-125-290000-
/O.NEW.KRAH.FF.W.0036.160928T2105Z-160929T0000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
505 PM EDT WED SEP 28 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HARNETT COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...
  EAST CENTRAL MOORE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...
  NORTHEASTERN HOKE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...
  NORTHWESTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 504 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS THAT
  WERE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE
  INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN NEAR ANDERSON CREEK. FLASH
  FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  FAYETTEVILLE...LILLINGTON...FORT BRAGG...DUNN...GODWIN...
  POPE AFB...SPRING LAKE...ERWIN...WHISPERING PINES AND COATS.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FLOOD PRONE AREAS...ANDERSON CREEK AT
ELLIOT BRIDGE ROAD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF
CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS...LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. DO
NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. MANY
ROADS AND INTERSECTIONS IN THE AREA WILL QUICKLY FLOOD. WHEN
ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS...TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN.

&&

LAT...LON 3528 7939 3531 7918 3538 7910 3546 7864
      3538 7857 3536 7856 3533 7853 3530 7858
      3527 7858 3525 7861 3520 7864 3519 7864
      3502 7927

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 27, 8:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery	49 min
Sep 27, 8:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Moore, Randolph	40 min
Sep 27, 9:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham, Hoke, Montgomery, Moore	84 min
Sep 27, 9:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Orange, Person	54 min
Sep 27, 9:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Montgomery, Moore	3 hr
Sep 27, 9:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance	67 min
Sep 27, 10:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Moore, Richmond	3 hr
Sep 27, 11:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	45 min
Sep 28, 12:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	28 min
Sep 28, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke	54 min
Sep 28, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	48 min
Sep 28, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	59 min
Sep 28, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Nash, Wilson	52 min
Sep 28, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Forsyth, Guilford	41 min
Sep 28, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	39 min
Sep 28, 3:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	2 hr
Sep 28, 3:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford	3 hr
Sep 28, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson	50 min
Sep 28, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Forsyth, Guilford	37 min
Sep 28, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash, Wilson	40 min
Sep 28, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	62 min
Sep 28, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Durham, Granville, Wake	37 min
Sep 28, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Vance, Warren	34 min
Sep 28, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford	63 min
Sep 28, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	33 min
Sep 28, 5:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Guilford	3 hr
Sep 28, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Guilford	42 min
Sep 28, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Person	38 min
Sep 28, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance	66 min
Sep 28, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Vance	27 min
Sep 28, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham	57 min
Sep 28, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Guilford	33 min
Sep 28, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Person	62 min
Sep 28, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Orange	44 min
Sep 28, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance	62 min
Sep 28, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Stanly	57 min
Sep 28, 7:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland	3 hr
Sep 28, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph, Stanly	23 min
Sep 28, 7:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Alamance, Orange	3 hr
Sep 28, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Guilford	26 min
Sep 28, 7:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Moore	10 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.