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River Flood Warning 7, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

April 4, 2009Lenoir County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at Apr 4, 2009, 11:03 PM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It took effect at Apr 5, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 4, 2009, 11:03 PM EDT (03:03 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 5, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 5, 2009, 8:18 PM EDT
In force: 18 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 03:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 13.97 ft at Apr 5, 2009, 12:00 PM 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 4, 8:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 8:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 5, 3:38 AM EDT	Gale Warning	MHX		45 hr
Apr 5, 3:38 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MHX		24 hr
Apr 5, 2:57 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	MHX	Dare, Hyde	29 hr

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.