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Areal Flood Warning 21, NWS Wilmington, NC

October 2, 2015Bladen County, Brunswick County, Columbus County, North Carolina; Horry County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this areal flood warning at Oct 2, 2015, 4:07 PM EDT for Bladen County, Brunswick County, Columbus County, North Carolina; Horry 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: Oct 2, 2015, 4:07 PM EDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired: Oct 2, 2015, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Horry County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 239 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Oct 2, 3:30 PM EDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 3:30 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 2, 3:54 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	3 hr
Oct 2, 5:24 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	10 hr
Oct 2, 5:55 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Columbus	2 hr
Oct 2, 7:03 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	57 min
Oct 2, 7:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender	3 hr
Oct 2, 8:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	53 min
Oct 2, 10:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Pender	2 hr
Oct 2, 11:48 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		87 min
Oct 2, 12:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	3 hr
Oct 2, 3:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, Columbus	3 hr
Oct 2, 3:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Pender	2 hr
Oct 2, 5:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	3 hr
Oct 2, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		65 min
Oct 2, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	55 min
Oct 2, 6:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Pender	6 hr
Oct 2, 7:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	3 hr
Oct 2, 7:53 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	8 hr
Oct 2, 10:21 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ILM	Florence, Marion	11 days
Oct 2, 10:21 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ILM	Darlington, Florence	9 days

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2015 Areal Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2015 Every areal flood warning in 2015

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.