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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 7, 20197 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood watch at Jun 7, 2019, 9:31 PM EDT for 7 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 45 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2019, 9:31 PM EDT (01:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2019, 6:04 PM EDT
In force: 45 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Flood severity: None

Counties Anson County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Stanly County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 7, 5:24 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 5:24 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 10:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Guilford, Randolph	3 hr
Jun 7, 10:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	4 hr
Jun 8, 2:46 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	89 min
Jun 8, 5:17 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	3 hr
Jun 8, 7:17 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RAH	Davidson	6 hr
Jun 8, 8:41 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Durham, Franklin, Granville, Vance, Wake	2 hr
Jun 8, 8:57 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Wayne	2 hr
Jun 8, 10:45 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Guilford	3 hr
Jun 8, 10:52 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Franklin, Vance, Wake, Warren	113 min
Jun 8, 11:16 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Franklin, Wake	4 hr
Jun 8, 1:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Forsyth	3 hr
Jun 8, 2:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Wake	98 min
Jun 8, 2:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland, Hoke, Moore	3 hr
Jun 8, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Moore	52 min
Jun 8, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	60 min
Jun 8, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland	58 min
Jun 8, 5:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Cumberland	75 min
Jun 8, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Lee	61 min

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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.