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Areal Flood Advisory 21, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 1, 2016Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this areal flood advisory at Jun 1, 2016, 3:31 PM EDT for Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2016, 3:31 PM EDT (19:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2016, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 252 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: 272 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -26 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 advisory 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 advisory went out at Jun 1, 3:15 PM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 3:15 PM EDT, 16 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
Jun 1, 2:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover	3 hr
Jun 1, 3:07 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover	6 hr
Jun 1, 3:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Pender	3 hr
Jun 1, 3:07 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	Georgetown, Horry	3 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in North Carolina, 2016 Every areal flood advisory in 2016

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.