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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

March 21, 2009Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at Mar 21, 2009, 8:15 PM EDT for Pitt County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 22, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 30 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 21, 2009, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 22, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 23, 2009, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
30 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Flood severity
Minor

County Pitt County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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 Tar River at Greenville (PGVN7). The gauge peaked at 13.09 ft at Mar 22, 2009, 3:00 PM EDT.

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Action stage
12 ft
Minor stage
13 ft
Moderate stage
17 ft
Major stage
19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02084000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2009Every 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.