Alert archive / North Carolina / Rip Current Statements in 2025
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this rip current statement at Apr 1, 2025, 8:11 PM EDT for New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina. It took effect at Apr 2, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2025, 8:11 PM EDT (00:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 2, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
936 WHUS42 KILM 020011 CFWILM Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Wilmington NC 811 PM EDT Tue Apr 1 2025 NCZ106-108-021200- /O.NEW.KILM.RP.S.0001.250402T1000Z-250403T0000Z/ Coastal Pender-Coastal New Hanover- 811 PM EDT Tue Apr 1 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM EDT WEDNESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Pender and Coastal New Hanover Counties. * WHEN...From 6 AM EDT Wednesday through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
1 follow-up statement
532 WHUS42 KILM 020752 CFWILM Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Wilmington NC 352 AM EDT Wed Apr 2 2025 NCZ106-108-030000- /O.CON.KILM.RP.S.0001.250402T1000Z-250403T0000Z/ Coastal Pender-Coastal New Hanover- 352 AM EDT Wed Apr 2 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Pender and Coastal New Hanover Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ 21
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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.