Alert archive / South Carolina / Flood Watches in 2015
Flood Watch 3, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this flood watch at Sep 30, 2015, 3:05 PM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina; 8 counties in South Carolina. It took effect at Oct 1, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 40 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 30, 2015, 3:05 PM EDT (19:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 1, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2015, 11:50 AM EDT
- In force
- 40 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 19:05 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 3:40 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 10 hr |
| Sep 30, 2:20 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 12 hr |
| Sep 30, 3:06 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | ILM | 7 days | |
| Sep 30, 3:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 2 hr |
| Sep 30, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Robeson | 59 min |
| Sep 30, 5:13 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 62 min |
| Sep 30, 6:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | New Hanover | 2 hr |
| Sep 30, 2:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Horry | 3 hr |
| Sep 30, 4:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Georgetown, Horry | 2 hr |
| Sep 30, 4:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Georgetown | 3 hr |
| Sep 30, 5:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Dillon, Marion | 118 min |
| Sep 30, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Dillon | 58 min |
| Sep 30, 6:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Dillon | 2 hr |
| Sep 30, 7:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Darlington, Marlboro | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flood Watches in South Carolina, 2015Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2015Every flood watch 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.