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High Surf Advisory 2, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this high surf advisory at Jan 10, 2024, 6:48 AM EST for Brunswick County, New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 10, 2024, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 10, 2024, 6:48 AM EST (11:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 10, 2024, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2024, 11:51 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties Brunswick County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:53 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 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1067 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Jan 9, 6:44 PM EST, 12 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 6:44 PM EST, 12 hours 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 7:22 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 83 min | |
| Jan 9, 9:27 PM EST | Gale Warning | ILM | 14 hr | |
| Jan 10, 10:00 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen, Cumberland | 8 days |
| Jan 10, 11:51 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | ILM | 15 hr | |
| Jan 9, 8:59 PM EST | River Flood Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 4 days |
| Jan 10, 10:01 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILM | Horry | 39 hr |
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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.