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Beach Hazards Statement 23, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 22, 2023Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this beach hazards statement at Jun 22, 2023, 7:58 PM EDT for Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina. It took effect at Jun 23, 2023, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2023, 7:58 PM EDT (23:58 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 23, 2023, 6:00 AM EDT
Expired: Jun 23, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

Counties Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 242 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 519 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 9:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Columbus	2 hr
Jun 22, 11:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	44 min
Jun 22, 3:21 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover	12 hr
Jun 22, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		38 min
Jun 22, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	33 min
Jun 22, 7:58 PM EDT	Rip Current Statement	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	24 hr
Jun 21, 9:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Williamsburg	73 min
Jun 22, 12:56 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Williamsburg	69 min

Nearby

Beach Hazards Statements in South Carolina, 2023 Every beach hazards statement in 2023

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.