Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2010
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 27, 2010, 4:28 PM EDT for Brunswick County, New Hanover County, Pender 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
- Sep 27, 2010, 4:28 PM EDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 2010, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Brunswick County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 12:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Marion, Williamsburg | 93 min |
| Sep 27, 4:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Florence, Williamsburg | 81 min |
| Sep 27, 5:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Horry, Marion | 54 min |
| Sep 27, 6:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Georgetown | 59 min |
| Sep 27, 6:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Horry | 31 min |
| Sep 27, 11:54 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 111 min |
| Sep 27, 1:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 46 min |
| Sep 27, 2:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ILM | Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 2 hr |
| Sep 27, 8:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 62 min |
| Sep 27, 9:30 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 2 hr |
| Sep 27, 11:24 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 6 hr |
| Sep 27, 3:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Pender | 90 min |
| Sep 27, 6:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.