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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 20, 2023Scotland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2023, 11:41 PM EDT for Scotland County, 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
Jun 20, 2023, 11:41 PM EDT (03:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2023, 4:44 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Scotland County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:42 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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 237 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 00:00Z on 2023-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 328 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 00:00Z on 2023-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 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
328 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 11:26 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHHoke, Scotland3 hr
Jun 21, 1:12 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHAnson, Moore, Richmond, Scotland2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2023Every flash flood warning in 2023

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.