Alert archive / South Carolina / Areal Flood Warnings in 2012
Areal Flood Warning 8, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this areal flood warning at May 16, 2012, 8:37 PM EDT for Georgetown County, South Carolina. It was in force for 3 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
- May 16, 2012, 8:37 PM EDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2012, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Georgetown County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 1393 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1014 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at May 16, 8:01 PM EDT, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 8:01 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 16, 3:23 PM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 323 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2012 NCZ087-096-099-105>109-SCZ017-023-024-032-033-039-053>056-171930- ROBESON-BLADEN-COLUMBUS-INLAND PENDER-COASTAL PENDER- INLAND NEW HANOVER-COASTAL NEW HANOVER-INLAND BRUNSWICK-MARLBORO- DARLINGTON-DILLON-FLORENCE-MARION-WILLIAMSBURG-INLAND HORRY- COASTAL HORRY-INLAND GEORGETOWN-COASTAL GEORGETOWN- 323 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL TODAY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDS ARE EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. AMZ250-252-254-256-171930- SURF CITY TO CAPE FEAR NC OUT 20 NM- CAPE FEAR NC TO LITTLE RIVER INLET SC OUT 20 NM- LITTLE RIVER INLET TO MURRELLS INLET SC OUT 20 NM- MURRELLS INLET TO SOUTH SANTEE RIVER SC OUT 20 NM- 323 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL TODAY...WHICH MAY BRING LIMITED VISIBILITIES AND LOCALLY HIGHER WINDS AND WAVES...AS WELL AS CLOUD TO WATER LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ110-171930- COASTAL BRUNSWICK- 323 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2012 ...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL TODAY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 16, 5:22 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
522 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0824 PM HAIL 3 NNE QUINBY 34.28N 79.70W
05/15/2012 E1.00 INCH FLORENCE SC PUBLIC
QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED ALONG NORTH WILLISTON ROAD.
&&
EVENT NUMBER ILM1200112
SRPSpecial weather statement, May 16, 5:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
538 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2012
SCZ055-056-162245-
COASTAL GEORGETOWN-INLAND GEORGETOWN-
538 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS GEORGETOWN COUNTY THROUGH
645 PM EDT...
AT 538 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
NORTH SANTEE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GEORGETOWN...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE GEORGETOWN...GRAVES...JACKSON...
LITCHFIELD BEACH...NORTH SANTEE...PLANTERSVILLE AND PAWLEY'S ISLAND.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.
THUNDERSTORMS CAN POSE A VARIETY OF THREATS INCLUDING GUSTY WINDS...
SMALL HAIL...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. IT
IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS.
&&
LAT...LON 3323 7946 3323 7949 3329 7955 3359 7923
3347 7909 3341 7913 3334 7915 3334 7917
3332 7916 3330 7920 3329 7927 3331 7928
3328 7928 3326 7925 3317 7939
TIME...MOT...LOC 2138Z 225DEG 11KT 3329 7940
BACONLocal storm report, May 16, 6:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 8:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Georgetown | 31 min |
| May 17, 4:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Horry, Williamsburg | 54 min |
| May 17, 6:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Florence | 34 min |
| May 17, 7:04 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | ILM | Florence, Marion | 5 days |
| May 17, 12:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 56 min |
| May 17, 12:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 28 min |
| May 17, 12:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 2 hr |
| May 17, 1:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Florence, Williamsburg | 52 min |
| May 17, 2:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ILM | Dillon, Florence, Marion, Williamsburg | 2 hr |
| May 17, 2:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Florence, Horry, Marion | 113 min |
| May 17, 3:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Dillon | 100 min |
| May 17, 4:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Dillon, Horry, Marion | 2 hr |
| May 17, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Pender | 60 min |
| May 17, 6:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Bladen, Pender | 53 min |
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Areal Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2012Every areal flood warning in 2012
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.