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River Flood Warning 19, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this river flood warning at Dec 4, 2009, 7:19 AM EST for Franklin County, North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 4, 2009, 10:25 AM EST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 4, 2009, 7:19 AM EST (12:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 4, 2009, 10:25 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 4, 2009, 8:16 PM EST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Franklin County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:19 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 Louisburg (LOUN7). The gauge peaked at 20.16 ft at Dec 4, 2009, 2:00 PM EST.
- Action stage
- 20 ft
- Minor stage
- 20 ft
- Moderate stage
- 22 ft
- Major stage
- 23 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02081747, 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 Dec 3, 3:10 PM EST, 16 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 3, 3:10 PM EST, 16 hours 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 3, 9:36 PM EST | River Flood Warning | RAH | Johnston | 7 hr |
| Dec 4, 11:15 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Nash | 24 hr |
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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.