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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Raleigh, NC

September 4, 201913 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood watch at Sep 4, 2019, 3:40 AM EDT for 13 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Sep 5, 2019, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 26 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 4, 2019, 3:40 AM EDT (07:40 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 5, 2019, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired: Sep 6, 2019, 9:46 AM EDT
In force: 26 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Flood severity: None

Counties Cumberland County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Nash County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Wake County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Sep 4, 3:37 AM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 3:37 AM EDT, 3 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
Sep 4, 11:05 AM EDT	Tropical Storm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Harnett, Hoke and 7 more	48 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2019 Every flash flood watch in 2019

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.