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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 11, 2024Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 2024, 12:28 PM EDT for Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 2024, 12:28 PM EDT (16:28 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 2024, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:27 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 2024-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1620 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2024-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1620 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-20 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
Jul 11, 3:38 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryILM51 hr
Jul 11, 10:12 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILMBrunswick2 hr
Jul 11, 10:28 AM EDTFlood WatchILMBladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson38 hr
Jul 11, 10:47 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILMPender101 min
Jul 11, 11:57 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILMBrunswick, Columbus2 hr
Jul 11, 1:19 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILMBrunswick79 min
Jul 11, 5:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningILM86 min
Jul 11, 11:58 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILMHorry2 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.