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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Raleigh, NC

March 2, 2009Chatham County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this river flood warning at Mar 2, 2009, 12:36 AM EST for Chatham County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 2, 2009, 3:00 AM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 2, 2009, 12:36 AM EST (05:36 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 2, 2009, 3:00 AM EST
Expired
Mar 2, 2009, 10:38 AM EST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Flood severity
Minor

County Chatham County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:35 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 Haw River near Bynum (BYNN7).

Action stage
10 ft
Minor stage
11 ft
Moderate stage
15 ft
Major stage
17 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02096960, 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 Mar 1, 3:45 PM EST, 8 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 3:45 PM EST, 8 hours 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 2, 10:33 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningRAHJohnston20 hr
Mar 2, 11:02 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryRAHAlamance, Anson, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Edgecombe and 23 more22 hr

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.