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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 28, 20177 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood watch at Aug 28, 2017, 10:33 AM EDT for 7 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Aug 28, 2017, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 2017, 10:33 AM EDT (14:33 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 28, 2017, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired
Aug 29, 2017, 3:04 AM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Flood severity
None

Counties Cumberland County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:32 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 146 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2017-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2017-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
630 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 10:34 AM EDTWind AdvisoryRAHCumberland, Edgecombe, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson, Wayne and 1 more16 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2017Every flash flood watch in 2017

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.