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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 27, 1997Brunswick County, New Hanover County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1997, 2:30 PM EDT for Brunswick County, New Hanover County, North 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
Jun 27, 1997, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1997, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Brunswick County, NC, New Hanover County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 130 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 1997-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 572 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 1997-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 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
572 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KILM 271831
FFWILM
NCC019-129-272030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
230 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAM AND STREET FLOODING EFFECTIVE
UNTIL 430 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

   ...BRUNSWICK COUNTY
   ...NEW HANOVER COUNTY
 
AT 228 PM EDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS WERE
DEVELOPING ACROSS WESTERN BRUNSWICK COUNTY AND THEN MOVING EAST
AT 20 MILES AN HOUR ACROSS EASTERN BRUNSWICK AND NEW HANOVER
COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IN AN
HOUR.

ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAVE ALREADY
ACCUMULATED FROM EARLIER STORMS THIS AFTERNOON... AND WITH THE
ADDITIONAL 2 TO 4 INCHES EXPECTED THROUGH 430 PM... FLOODING WILL
OCCUR.

PEOPLE ACROSS THE WARNING AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SMALL STREAM
FLOODING... ALONG WITH URBAN AND RURAL STREET FLOODING.

 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED
QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

SQI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 1:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBrunswick, Columbus45 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.