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Flood Watch 5, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this flood watch at Sep 8, 2014, 9:40 AM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina; Darlington County, Dillon County, Marlboro County, South Carolina. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 2014, 9:40 AM EDT (13:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2014, 3:36 AM EDT
- In force
- 18 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, Marlboro County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 930 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Sep 8, 7:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 7:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 10:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | New Hanover | 36 min |
| Sep 8, 5:48 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | New Hanover | 5 hr |
| Sep 8, 3:33 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | New Hanover | 20 hr |
| Sep 8, 4:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Columbus | 51 min |
| Sep 8, 5:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Bladen | 53 min |
| Sep 8, 6:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 6:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Columbus, Robeson | 82 min |
| Sep 8, 5:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Horry, Marion | 57 min |
Nearby
Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2014Flood Watches in South Carolina, 2014Every flood watch in 2014
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.