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River Flood Warning 20, NWS Charleston, SC

December 12, 2009Bryan County, Chatham County, Effingham County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this river flood warning at Dec 12, 2009, 10:28 PM EST for Bryan County, Chatham County, Effingham County, Georgia. It took effect at Dec 13, 2009, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 6 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 12, 2009, 10:28 PM EST (03:28 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 13, 2009, 10:00 AM EST
Expired: Dec 18, 2009, 10:28 PM EST
In force: 6 days
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Bryan County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Effingham County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Ogeechee River near Eden (EDEG1).

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 11 ft
Moderate stage: 14 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02202500, 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 12, 9:44 PM EST, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 12, 9:44 PM EST, 44 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 13, 4:46 AM EST	River Flood Warning	CHS	Tattnall, Toombs	6 days
Dec 13, 9:44 AM EST	Flash Flood Watch	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins, Long and 2 more	4 hr
Dec 13, 10:22 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Jenkins, Screven	83 min
Dec 13, 10:51 AM EST	River Flood Warning	CHS	Evans	10 days
Dec 13, 11:42 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Jenkins, Screven	78 min
Dec 13, 2:14 PM EST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	CHS		44 hr

Nearby

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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.