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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 16, 2022Guilford County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2022, 2:37 PM EDT for Guilford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 16, 2022, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2022, 5:55 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

County Guilford County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2022-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 410 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2022-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
410 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
896 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 12:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHWake62 min
Jul 16, 12:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHLee, Moore65 min
Jul 16, 12:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHDavidson48 min
Jul 16, 1:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHStanly65 min
Jul 16, 2:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHAlamance, Guilford66 min
Jul 16, 2:13 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHGuilford4 hr
Jul 16, 2:49 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHRandolph3 hr
Jul 16, 2:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHCumberland56 min
Jul 16, 2:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHMontgomery, Stanly66 min
Jul 16, 2:57 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHCumberland, Harnett2 hr
Jul 16, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAlamance, Guilford, Orange, Randolph49 min
Jul 16, 3:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHPerson59 min
Jul 16, 4:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHChatham60 min
Jul 16, 4:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHVance, Warren52 min
Jul 16, 4:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHGranville, Vance, Warren54 min
Jul 16, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGranville, Vance, Warren51 min
Jul 16, 4:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHMoore65 min
Jul 16, 5:05 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHMoore51 min
Jul 16, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin31 min
Jul 16, 5:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHHoke, Richmond, Scotland67 min
Jul 16, 5:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHHalifax, Warren62 min
Jul 16, 5:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin, Halifax, Nash, Vance, Warren56 min
Jul 16, 6:23 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHHoke, Scotland81 min

Nearby

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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.