Alert archive / North Carolina / Rip Current Statements in 2014
Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this rip current statement at Apr 19, 2014, 4:08 PM EDT for New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina; Georgetown County, South Carolina. It took effect at Apr 20, 2014, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2014, 4:08 PM EDT (20:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 20, 2014, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Georgetown County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 446 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
764 WHUS42 KILM 192008 CFWILM URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 408 PM EDT SAT APR 19 2014 NCZ106-108-SCZ056-201230- /O.NEW.KILM.RP.S.0003.140420T1200Z-140421T0000Z/ COASTAL PENDER-COASTAL NEW HANOVER-COASTAL GEORGETOWN- 408 PM EDT SAT APR 19 2014 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. * LOCATION...COASTAL PENDER...NEW HANOVER...AND GEORGETOWN COUNTIES. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK FOR COASTAL PENDER...NEW HANOVER...AND GEORGETOWN COUNTIES. MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK FOR COASTAL BRUNSWICK AND HORRY COUNTIES. * SURF HEIGHT...4 TO 6 FEET. * OTHER HAZARDS...GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS WILL PREVAIL ON SUNDAY WITH SUSTAINED WINDS AROUND 25 KTS AND HIGHER GUSTS POSSIBLE. HIGH WINDS WILL CREATE ROUGH SURF CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS...JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$ PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM
2 follow-up statements
032 WHUS42 KILM 200920 CFWILM URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 520 AM EDT SUN APR 20 2014 NCZ106-108-SCZ056-210000- /O.CON.KILM.RP.S.0003.140420T1200Z-140421T0000Z/ COASTAL PENDER-COASTAL NEW HANOVER-COASTAL GEORGETOWN- 520 AM EDT SUN APR 20 2014 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * LOCATION...COASTAL PENDER...NEW HANOVER...AND GEORGETOWN COUNTIES. * RIP CURRENT RISK...WIND AND WAVE CONDITIONS HAVE COMBINED TO PRODUCE A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK FOR COASTAL PENDER...NEW HANOVER...AND GEORGETOWN COUNTIES. A MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK CAN BE EXPECTED FOR COASTAL HORRY COUNTY FROM MYRTLE BEACH SOUTH. * SURF HEIGHT...4 TO 6 FEET. * OTHER HAZARDS...GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS WILL PREVAIL ON SUNDAY WITH SUSTAINED WINDS AROUND 25 KTS AND HIGHER GUSTS POSSIBLE. HIGH WINDS WILL CREATE ROUGH SURF CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS...JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. RIP CURRENTS CAN BE PARTICULARITY STRONG AROUND TIME OF LOW TIDE...WHICH WILL BE AROUND 6 PM. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$ PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM
495 WHUS42 KILM 202358 CFWILM URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 758 PM EDT SUN APR 20 2014 NCZ106-108-SCZ056-210100- /O.EXP.KILM.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-140421T0000Z/ COASTAL PENDER-COASTAL NEW HANOVER-COASTAL GEORGETOWN- 758 PM EDT SUN APR 20 2014 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 8 PM THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE BEACHES OF PENDER AND NEW HANOVER COUNTIES ON MONDAY AS WAVE CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT STRONGER OR MORE FREQUENT RIP CURRENTS. A MODERATE TO STRONG NORTH TO SOUTH LONGSHORE CURRENT WILL CONTINUE AS WELL AS NORTHEAST WINDS PREVAIL AROUND A COASTAL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OFFSHORE WHICH WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE AWAY FROM OUR AREA. $$ PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 1:21 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 84 min | |
| Apr 19, 2:05 AM EDT | Gale Warning | ILM | 47 hr | |
| Apr 19, 4:06 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 84 min | |
| Apr 19, 4:22 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 113 min |
| Apr 19, 6:02 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 118 min |
| Apr 19, 10:10 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | ILM | Robeson | 4 days |
| Apr 19, 10:10 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 4 days |
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.