Alert archive / North Carolina / Beach Hazards Statements in 2016
Beach Hazards Statement 1, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this beach hazards statement at Apr 15, 2016, 5:15 AM EDT for Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina; Brunswick County, New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina. It took effect at Apr 15, 2016, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2016, 5:15 AM EDT (09:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 15, 2016, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2016, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties Brunswick County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:18 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 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
255 WHUS42 KILM 150915 CFWILM URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 515 AM EDT FRI APR 15 2016 NCZ106-108-110-SCZ054-056-151715- /O.NEW.KILM.BH.S.0001.160415T1200Z-160416T0100Z/ COASTAL PENDER-COASTAL NEW HANOVER-COASTAL BRUNSWICK-COASTAL HORRY- COASTAL GEORGETOWN- 515 AM EDT FRI APR 15 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. WINDS WILL INCREASE THIS MORNING TO 20 TO 25 MPH...WITH OCCASIONAL HIGHER GUSTS. AS A RESULT A STRONG NORTH TO SOUTH LONGSHORE CURRENT WILL DEVELOP AT THE BEACHES. AT THE BRUNSWICK COUNTY BEACHES THE LONGSHORE CURRENT BE MODERATE FROM THE EAST TO WEST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THREATS SUCH AS RIP CURRENTS...LONGSHORE CURRENTS...AND OTHER HAZARDS CREATE LIFE- THREATENING CONDITIONS IN THE SURF ZONE. CAUTION SHOULD BE USED WHEN IN OR NEAR THE WATER. && $$ 47
1 follow-up statement
571 WHUS42 KILM 160056 CFWILM URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 856 PM EDT FRI APR 15 2016 NCZ106-108-110-SCZ054-056-160200- /O.EXP.KILM.BH.S.0001.000000T0000Z-160416T0100Z/ COASTAL PENDER-COASTAL NEW HANOVER-COASTAL BRUNSWICK-COASTAL HORRY- COASTAL GEORGETOWN- 856 PM EDT FRI APR 15 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... GIVEN A DECREASE IN WIND SPEEDS FROM EARLIER TODAY...THE BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR A STRONG LONGSHORE CURRENT WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ 04
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.