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River Flood Advisory 1, NWS Wilmington, NC

February 8, 2011Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this river flood advisory at Feb 8, 2011, 11:28 AM EST for Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 8, 2011, 11:28 AM EST (16:28 UTC)
Expired: Feb 12, 2011, 8:02 PM EST
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:30 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 N.E. Cape Fear River near Burgaw (BGWN7).

Action stage: 7 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 12 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02108566, 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 advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood advisory went out at Feb 8, 10:13 AM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 8, 10:13 AM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 8, 3:06 AM EST, 8 hours 22 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 7, 11:33 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	ILM		12 hr

Nearby

River Flood Advisories in North Carolina, 2011 Every river flood advisory in 2011

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.