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Beach Hazards Statement 39, NWS Wilmington, NC

October 30, 2023New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina; Georgetown County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this beach hazards statement at Oct 30, 2023, 8:18 PM EDT for New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina; Georgetown County, South Carolina. It took effect at Oct 31, 2023, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 30, 2023, 8:18 PM EDT (00:18 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 31, 2023, 6:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 31, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC

Counties New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Georgetown County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 00:00Z on 2023-10-31Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2023-10-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 123 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1290 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
125 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
Oct 31, 1:20 AM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryILMBrunswick, New Hanover, Pender13 hr
Oct 31, 3:01 AM EDTFreeze WatchILMBladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson23 hr
Oct 31, 3:16 AM EDTGale WatchILM12 hr
Oct 31, 3:16 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryILM12 hr
Oct 31, 3:34 PM EDTGale WarningILM23 hr

Nearby

Beach Hazards Statements in North Carolina, 2023Beach Hazards Statements in South Carolina, 2023Every 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.