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Flash Flood Watch 7, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood watch at Sep 12, 2018, 4:35 AM EDT for 26 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Sep 13, 2018, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 12, 2018, 4:35 AM EDT (08:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 13, 2018, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2018, 7:59 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Flood severity
- None
All 26 counties
Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Orange County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Wake County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1844 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1004 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 12, 2:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 2:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 5:05 PM EDT | Tropical Storm Warning | RAH | Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Edgecombe, Franklin, Harnett and 13 more | 72 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.