Alert archive / South Carolina / Red Flag Warnings in 2018
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this red flag warning at Mar 3, 2018, 4:02 AM EST for Georgetown County, Horry County, Marion County, South Carolina. It was in force for 14 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
- Mar 3, 2018, 4:02 AM EST (09:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2018, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:08 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 2634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 3:05 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | ILM | 49 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in South Carolina, 2018Every red flag warning in 2018
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.