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Rip Current Statement 28, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this rip current statement at Sep 23, 2025, 7:48 PM EDT for New Hanover County, North Carolina. It took effect at Sep 24, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 23, 2025, 7:48 PM EDT (23:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 24, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2025, 7:51 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
County New Hanover County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1396 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted.
427 WHUS42 KILM 232348 CFWILM Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Wilmington NC 748 PM EDT Tue Sep 23 2025 NCZ108-250000- /O.CAN.KILM.RP.S.0027.000000T0000Z-250924T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KILM.RP.S.0028.250924T1000Z-250925T0000Z/ Coastal New Hanover- 748 PM EDT Tue Sep 23 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM EDT WEDNESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal New Hanover County. * 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. && $$ NCZ106-240100- /O.CAN.KILM.RP.S.0027.000000T0000Z-250924T0000Z/ Coastal Pender- 748 PM EDT Tue Sep 23 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$ 21
1 follow-up statement
642 WHUS42 KILM 242351 CFWILM Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Wilmington NC 751 PM EDT Wed Sep 24 2025 NCZ108-250100- /O.CAN.KILM.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-250925T0000Z/ Coastal New Hanover- 751 PM EDT Wed Sep 24 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$ 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.