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Flood Watch 1, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this flood watch at Feb 4, 2016, 11:10 AM EST for 5 counties in North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 4, 2016, 11:10 AM EST (16:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2016, 1:06 AM EST
- In force
- 14 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, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:10 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Feb 4, 9:38 AM EST, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 4, 9:38 AM EST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 10:17 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Brunswick | 58 min |
| Feb 4, 4:37 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 4 hr |
| Feb 4, 6:18 AM EST | Gale Watch | ILM | 9 hr | |
| Feb 4, 11:39 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen | 4 days |
| Feb 4, 11:39 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILM | Pender | 12 days |
| Feb 4, 11:39 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILM | Robeson | 26 days |
| Feb 4, 3:00 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | ILM | 28 hr | |
| Feb 4, 3:33 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 57 min |
| Feb 4, 11:39 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILM | Dillon, Horry, Marion | 32 days |
| Feb 4, 11:39 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILM | Florence, Marion | 9 days |
| Feb 4, 11:39 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 4 days |
| Feb 4, 11:39 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 7 days |
Nearby
Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2016Flood Watches in South Carolina, 2016Every flood watch 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.