Alert archive / South Carolina / Flood Watches in 2014
Flood Watch 4, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this flood watch at Aug 11, 2014, 2:55 AM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina; 8 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 2014, 2:55 AM EDT (06:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2014, 1:39 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 814 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 3:48 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 21 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Bladen, Columbus | 82 min |
| Aug 11, 6:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Florence, Williamsburg | 80 min |
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.