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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 11, 2020Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina; 7 counties in South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this flash flood watch at Jun 11, 2020, 12:14 PM EDT for Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina; 7 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 2020, 12:14 PM EDT (16:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2020, 10:17 PM EDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Flood severity
None

Counties Bladen County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:18 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2020-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 326 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2020-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
326 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood watch went out at Jun 11, 9:28 AM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 9:28 AM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 10:46 PM EDTBeach Hazards StatementILMNew Hanover, Pender21 hr
Jun 11, 2:08 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILMBladen, Columbus, Robeson112 min
Jun 11, 1:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMMarion53 min
Jun 11, 2:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMDillon62 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in South Carolina, 2020Flash Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2020Every flash flood watch in 2020

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.