Pawleys Island, South Carolina

... Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect...

... New information...

At 8 PM... Tropical Storm Cristobal was located around 50 miles
south southeast of Bald Head Island... North Carolina. A Tropical Storm
Warning remains in effect from South Santee River South Carolina
to Surf City North Carolina.

... Areas affected...

This statement recommends actions to be taken by persons in...
southeast North Carolina and northeast South Carolina.

... Storm information...

At 8 PM... the center of Tropical Storm Cristobal was located near
latitude 33.2 north... longitude 77.8 west or about 75 miles
east southeast of Myrtle Beach or 75 miles south southeast of
Wilmington... North Carolina.

Tropical Storm Cristobal is moving to the northeast around 6 mph.
This northeast motion is expected to continue with a slow increase
in forward speed over the next couple of days.

Maximum sustained winds are near 45 mph with higher gusts. Some
slow strengthening is forecast during the next couple of days. The
minimum central pressure was 1005 mb or 29.68 inches.


... Watches/warnings...

No additional hazards are in effect.

... Storm surge and storm tide...

Minimal surge is expected at this time... with water level rises
up to 2 feet above astronomical tides... especially for New
Hanover and Pender counties around high tide at 930 PM EDT this
evening. Beach erosion is also possible... coinciding with high
tide tonight... mainly along Pender and New Hanover County
beaches.

... Winds...

Sustained tropical storm force winds may impact the immediate
coast of the northeastern South Carolina coast this evening and
the coast of southeastern North Carolina coast this evening and
overnight.

... Probability of hurricane/tropical storm conditions...

There is a 31 percent probability of tropical storm force winds in
Wilmington... and a 13 percent chance of tropical storm force winds
in Myrtle Beach.

... Inland flooding...

Up to 3 to 5 inches of rainfall is possible across the coastal
sections north of Cape Fear with isolated higher amounts. 2 to 4
inch amounts are possible east of a Elizabethtown... North Carolina
to Southport... North Carolina line. The large amounts of rainfall
may result in the flooding of urban and other flood prone areas.


... Next update...

The next update will be issued around midnight.

... Record daily maximum rainfall set at Wilmington...

a record rainfall of 2.4 inch(es) was set at Wilmington today.
This breaks the old record of 2.32 set in 1955.

... Public information statement...

The following are unofficial observations taken since midnight.
These reports were gathered... from ASOS... cooperative observers...
cocorahs observers... mesonet... and RAWS sites. This summary is also
available on our home Page at weather.Gov/ilm.


********************Storm total rainfall********************

Location storm total time/date comments
                     rainfall of
                     (inches) measurement


North Carolina

... Brunswick County...
   Leland 1.5s 1.60 630 PM 7/19 NWS employee
   Winnabow 1.02 900 PM 7/19 mesonet

... New Hanover County...
   Ogden 2wnw 4.86 905 PM 7/19 mesonet (alamosa place)
   Ogden 2wnw 3.78 900 PM 7/19 mesonet (olde well loop)
   Ogden 2wnw 3.73 903 PM 7/19 mesonet (farrington farms)
   Wilmington 3.40 900 PM 7/19 ASOS (airport)
   Ogden 1wnw 2.52 400 PM 7/19 mesonet (middle sound loop)
   Masonboro 1ene 2.08 835 PM 7/19 NWS employee
   Wrightsville Beach 2.04 900 PM 7/19 mesonet
   Masonboro 1sw 0.94 900 PM 7/19 mesonet (monkey jct.)

... Pender County...
   Burgaw 2n 1.06 900 PM 7/19 mesonet

... Robeson County...
   Lumberton 0.02 900 PM 7/19 ASOS (airport)

South Carolina

... Horry County...
   North Myrtle Beach 0.30 900 PM 7/19 ASOS (airport)

***********************peak wind gust***********************

Location peak wind time/date comments
                         gust of
                        (mph) measurement


North Carolina

... New Hanover County...
   Wrightsville Beach 45 848 am 7/19 johnny Mercer pier (noaa)