Alert archive / North Carolina / Areal Flood Advisories in 2021
Areal Flood Advisory 76, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this areal flood advisory at Oct 7, 2021, 8:51 AM EDT for Brunswick County, New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 2021, 8:51 AM EDT (12:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2021, 10:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Brunswick County, NC, New Hanover County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 3:51 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 6 hr |
| Oct 7, 9:59 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | New Hanover | 3 hr |
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.