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High Surf Advisory 2, NWS Wilmington, NC

January 15, 2022Brunswick County, New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this high surf advisory at Jan 15, 2022, 3:42 PM EST for Brunswick County, New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina. It took effect at Jan 16, 2022, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 15, 2022, 3:42 PM EST (20:42 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 16, 2022, 11:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 17, 2022, 7:00 AM EST
In force
20 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 20:42 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 12:00Z, 8.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2022-01-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2022-01-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -45 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1081 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 15, 3:27 AM ESTGale WarningILM64 hr
Jan 15, 3:27 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryILM25 hr
Jan 15, 4:03 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryILMBladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson35 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in North Carolina, 2022High Surf Advisories in South Carolina, 2022Every high surf advisory in 2022

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.