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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Raleigh, NC

January 25, 2010Davidson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this river flood warning at Jan 25, 2010, 5:04 AM EST for Davidson County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 25, 2010, 10:49 AM EST. It was in force for 42 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 25, 2010, 5:04 AM EST (10:04 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 25, 2010, 10:49 AM EST
Expired: Jan 27, 2010, 4:53 AM EST
In force: 42 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Flood severity: Moderate

County Davidson County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Yadkin River at Yadkin College (YADN7). The gauge peaked at 25.84 ft at Jan 26, 2010, 12:00 PM EST.

Action stage: 17 ft
Minor stage: 18 ft
Moderate stage: 25 ft
Major stage: 29 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02116500, 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 Jan 25, 4:13 AM EST, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 25, 4:13 AM EST, 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 25, 4:22 AM EST, 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 25, 3:59 AM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 25, 4:23 AM EST, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 25, 4:27 AM EST, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 25, 4:39 AM EST, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 25, 4:54 AM EST, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 25, 4:58 AM EST, 6 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
Jan 24, 9:35 PM EST	Wind Advisory	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more	10 hr
Jan 24, 11:06 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth	4 hr
Jan 24, 11:37 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Guilford, Randolph	6 hr
Jan 25, 12:41 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Stanly	2 hr
Jan 25, 1:17 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Stanly	43 min
Jan 25, 1:28 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Anson, Moore, Richmond	3 hr
Jan 25, 1:48 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Lee	4 hr
Jan 25, 1:53 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Durham, Orange, Person, Wake	4 hr
Jan 25, 2:11 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Scotland	49 min
Jan 25, 2:30 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Granville, Vance	3 hr
Jan 25, 3:32 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Sampson, Wayne	4 hr
Jan 25, 3:45 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Johnston, Wake	45 min
Jan 25, 4:05 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren, Wilson	3 hr
Jan 25, 4:49 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Nash, Wayne, Wilson	56 min
Jan 25, 5:32 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Guilford, Randolph	3 hr
Jan 25, 6:33 AM EST	River Flood Warning	RAH	Anson, Stanly	22 hr
Jan 25, 8:35 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Guilford	3 hr
Jan 25, 11:16 AM EST	River Flood Warning	RAH	Chatham	19 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.