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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Raleigh, NC

September 23, 20234 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 23, 2023, 10:27 AM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 5 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
Sep 23, 2023, 10:27 AM EDT (14:27 UTC)
Expired
Sep 23, 2023, 3:49 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

Counties Edgecombe County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Nash County, NC, Wilson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:32 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2023-09-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 210 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2023-09-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -88 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 23, 11:47 AM EDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatRAHFranklin, Johnston, Wake5 hr
Sep 23, 3:46 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHDurham3 hr

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.