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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2023, 1:41 PM EDT for Alamance County, 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 8, 2023, 1:41 PM EDT (17:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2023, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Alamance County, NC, Guilford County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 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 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 8, 1:00 PM EDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 1:00 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jul 8, 8:50 AM EDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 8:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Bladen | 59 min |
| Jul 7, 9:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Durham | 55 min |
| Jul 7, 9:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Sampson | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Richmond, Scotland | 26 min |
| Jul 8, 1:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 117 min |
| Jul 8, 1:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Stanly | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 2:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Chatham | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Montgomery | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 2:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Chatham | 111 min |
| Jul 8, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Randolph | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 3:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Montgomery | 119 min |
| Jul 8, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Lee | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wake | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Scotland | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 5:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Franklin, Wake | 24 min |
| Jul 8, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Richmond, Scotland | 33 min |
| Jul 8, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wake | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 5:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Franklin, Wake | 66 min |
| Jul 8, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Hoke | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 7:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Sampson | 57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.