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River Flood Warning 14, NWS Raleigh, NC

November 12, 2009Alamance County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this river flood warning at Nov 12, 2009, 3:21 AM EST for Alamance County, North Carolina. It took effect at Nov 12, 2009, 5:06 AM EST. It was in force for 48 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 12, 2009, 3:21 AM EST (08:21 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 12, 2009, 5:06 AM EST
Expired: Nov 14, 2009, 4:40 AM EST
In force: 48 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Flood severity: Minor

County Alamance County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:21 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 Haw River at Haw River (HAWN7). The gauge peaked at 20.83 ft at Nov 13, 2009, 1:00 PM EST.

Action stage: 16 ft
Minor stage: 18 ft
Moderate stage: 23 ft
Major stage: 27 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02096500, 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 Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Nov 12, 12:52 AM EST, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 12, 12:52 AM EST, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 11, 7:26 PM EST	River Flood Warning	RAH	Chatham	57 hr
Nov 12, 5:40 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford	25 min
Nov 12, 6:00 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	3 hr
Nov 12, 8:32 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Warren, Wilson	6 hr
Nov 12, 9:04 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	4 hr
Nov 12, 9:51 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren	4 hr
Nov 12, 1:08 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Guilford	6 hr
Nov 12, 1:51 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Halifax	3 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.