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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Wilmington, NC

August 3, 1996Marlboro County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 1996, 8:23 PM EDT for Marlboro County, South Carolina. It was in force for 2 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: Aug 3, 1996, 8:23 PM EDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 1996, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Marlboro County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 3, 2:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 9:23 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Brunswick	52 min
Aug 4, 9:28 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Brunswick	47 min
Aug 4, 9:38 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Brunswick	37 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.