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River Flood Warning 19, NWS Charleston, SC

December 10, 2009Screven County, Georgia; Allendale County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this river flood warning at Dec 10, 2009, 10:30 AM EST for Screven County, Georgia; Allendale County, South Carolina. It took effect at Dec 11, 2009, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 10, 2009, 10:30 AM EST (15:30 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 11, 2009, 1:00 AM EST
Expired: Dec 16, 2009, 10:30 AM EST
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Screven County, GA, Allendale County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:33 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 Savannah River at Burton's Ferry (BFYG1).

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 25 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02197500, 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 Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Dec 9, 6:36 PM EST, 15 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 9, 6:36 PM EST, 15 hours 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 9, 4:27 PM EST, 18 hours 3 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 10, 4:28 AM EST	Freeze Watch	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Long, Tattnall	12 hr
Dec 10, 4:35 PM EST	Freeze Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Tattnall	16 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2009 River Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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.