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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 14, 2023Richmond County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 2023, 5:37 PM EDT for Richmond County, North Carolina. It was in force for 113 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 14, 2023, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2023, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 113 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Richmond County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 235 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: 1258 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 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 14, 4:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 4:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 4:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 14, 2:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 2:52 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 14, 4:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 14, 4:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:37 PM EDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:52 PM EDT, 45 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
Jul 13, 10:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Guilford	36 min
Jul 14, 12:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville, Person	56 min
Jul 14, 1:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax, Warren	53 min
Jul 14, 1:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville, Orange, Person, Vance	61 min
Jul 14, 1:34 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Durham, Granville, Halifax, Orange, Person, Vance and 1 more	4 hr
Jul 14, 2:25 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Durham, Franklin, Granville, Vance, Warren	74 min
Jul 14, 3:16 AM EDT	Flood Watch	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more	21 hr
Jul 14, 3:39 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Vance, Warren	5 hr
Jul 14, 4:19 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Durham, Orange, Wake	86 min
Jul 14, 4:42 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Wilson	5 hr
Jul 14, 5:20 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Moore, Wake	25 min
Jul 14, 5:45 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Chatham, Durham, Lee, Wake	105 min
Jul 14, 7:04 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Harnett, Johnston, Nash, Wilson	3 hr
Jul 14, 8:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	56 min
Jul 14, 8:52 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Durham, Franklin, Granville, Orange, Wake	112 min
Jul 14, 9:05 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland, Sampson, Wayne	4 hr
Jul 14, 9:20 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Sampson	3 hr
Jul 14, 10:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	56 min
Jul 14, 10:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	50 min
Jul 14, 11:41 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Sampson	2 hr
Jul 14, 11:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	48 min
Jul 14, 12:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Bladen	40 min
Jul 14, 12:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Sampson	3 hr
Jul 14, 12:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Sampson	44 min
Jul 14, 12:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Sampson	22 min
Jul 14, 1:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Orange	30 min
Jul 14, 1:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Bladen	55 min
Jul 14, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke, Scotland	60 min
Jul 14, 1:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Orange	58 min
Jul 14, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Scotland	39 min
Jul 14, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Wake	53 min
Jul 14, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Chatham, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore and 1 more	46 min
Jul 14, 3:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Chatham, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore and 1 more	53 min
Jul 14, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Moore	38 min
Jul 14, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond	53 min
Jul 14, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Richmond, Scotland	64 min
Jul 14, 5:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Richmond, Scotland	112 min
Jul 14, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Stanly	22 min
Jul 14, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	56 min
Jul 14, 7:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	54 min
Jul 14, 7:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph	3 hr

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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.