Flash Flood Warning

FFWMHX

The National Weather Service in Newport/Morehead City has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for... Northwestern Duplin County in eastern North Carolina... Southwestern Lenoir County in eastern North Carolina...

* Until 245 AM EDT.

* At 1147 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 0.5 and 1.5 inches of rain have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 1.5 to 3 inches in 1 hour. Additional rainfall amounts of 2 to 3 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.

HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.

SOURCE...Radar.

IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor drainage and low-lying areas.

* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... Warsaw, Mount Olive, Kornegay, Bowdens, Beautancus, Kenansville, Albertson, Sarecta, Faison and Calypso.

This storm has had a history of producing street and road flooding in Goldsboro and Smithfield.