Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Watches in 2008
Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this flash flood watch at Sep 10, 2008, 11:05 AM EDT for Dillon County, Marion County, Marlboro County, South Carolina; Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 2008, 11:05 AM EDT (15:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bladen County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Dillon County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1012 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 8:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Marlboro | 83 min |
| Sep 9, 9:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Dillon, Florence, Horry, Marion | 80 min |
| Sep 10, 12:24 PM EDT | Flood Watch | ILM | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marion, Marlboro, Williamsburg | 13 hr |
| Sep 10, 1:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 110 min |
| Sep 10, 4:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Bladen, Columbus, Robeson | 109 min |
| Sep 10, 7:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 114 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in South Carolina, 2008Flash Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2008Every flash flood watch in 2008
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.