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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

April 10, 2008Lenoir County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at Apr 10, 2008, 10:30 AM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It took effect at Apr 11, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 28 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 2008, 10:30 AM EDT (14:30 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 11, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired: Apr 12, 2008, 6:18 PM EDT
In force: 28 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Flood severity: Minor

County Lenoir County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:33 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 river

Written for the forecast point Neuse River at Kinston (KINN7). The gauge peaked at 14.04 ft at Apr 12, 2008, 1:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02089500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Apr 9, 5:03 PM EDT, 17 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 5:03 PM EDT, 17 hours 27 minutes before

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.