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Flood Watch 2, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flood watch at Sep 9, 2022, 3:01 PM EDT for 9 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Sep 10, 2022, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 2022, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 10, 2022, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2022, 3:13 AM EDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Stanly County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 293 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 803 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Sep 9, 2:55 PM EDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 2:55 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 1:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RAH | Alamance, Anson, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Montgomery and 3 more | 40 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.