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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 6, 2022Guilford County, Randolph County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2022, 5:52 PM EDT for Guilford County, Randolph County, North Carolina. It was in force for 99 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 2022, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2022, 7:31 PM EDT
In force: 99 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

Counties Guilford County, NC, Randolph County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 23 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: 43 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 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 warning 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 warning went out at Jul 6, 3:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 3:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 9:31 AM EDT, 8 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:54 PM EDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:29 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 6, 5:51 PM EDT, 1 minute 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
Jul 5, 8:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	60 min
Jul 5, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond	42 min
Jul 5, 8:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Richmond	61 min
Jul 5, 8:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Moore	56 min
Jul 5, 9:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Scotland	58 min
Jul 5, 9:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Richmond	60 min
Jul 5, 9:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Anson, Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Scotland	3 hr
Jul 5, 10:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Scotland	62 min
Jul 5, 10:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	58 min
Jul 6, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	56 min
Jul 6, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	42 min
Jul 6, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth	49 min
Jul 6, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery	66 min
Jul 6, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford, Randolph	47 min
Jul 6, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	46 min
Jul 6, 5:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Guilford, Randolph	15 min
Jul 6, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Randolph	62 min
Jul 6, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Guilford, Randolph	61 min
Jul 6, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	55 min
Jul 6, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	46 min
Jul 6, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Wilson	29 min
Jul 6, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Person	55 min
Jul 6, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	50 min
Jul 6, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Orange, Person	62 min
Jul 6, 7:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson	15 min
Jul 6, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson	62 min
Jul 6, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	53 min
Jul 6, 7:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson	3 hr
Jul 6, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Stanly	60 min
Jul 6, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Stanly	63 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.