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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

September 22, 2009Buncombe County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood warning at Sep 22, 2009, 12:14 AM EDT for Buncombe County, North Carolina. It took effect at Sep 22, 2009, 1:23 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 22, 2009, 12:14 AM EDT (04:14 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 22, 2009, 1:23 AM EDT
Expired: Sep 22, 2009, 9:56 AM EDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Flood severity: Minor

County Buncombe County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 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 French Broad River at Pearson Bridge Rd, 2 NW Asheville (AVLN7). The gauge peaked at 8.11 ft at Sep 22, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 6.5 ft
Minor stage: 9.5 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03451500, 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Sep 21, 2:37 PM EDT, 9 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 2:37 PM EDT, 9 hours 37 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 21, 9:26 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe	24 hr
Sep 22, 12:36 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	114 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North 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.