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River Flood Warning 45, NWS Columbia, SC

August 21, 2013Orangeburg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this river flood warning at Aug 21, 2013, 11:25 AM EDT for Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It took effect at Aug 21, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 38 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 21, 2013, 11:25 AM EDT (15:25 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 21, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired
Aug 23, 2013, 3:44 AM EDT
In force
38 hr
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Orangeburg County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:28 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 N. Fork Edisto River at Orangeburg (ORBS1).

Action stage
7 ft
Minor stage
8 ft
Moderate stage
10 ft
Major stage
11.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02173500, 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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Aug 20, 7:56 PM EDT, 15 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 7:56 PM EDT, 15 hours 29 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 20, 8:46 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAEFairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland59 min
Aug 21, 8:36 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAENewberry, Saluda54 min
Aug 21, 9:25 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAELexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda50 min
Aug 21, 2:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEAiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 12 more6 hr
Aug 21, 3:53 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAEChesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster52 min
Aug 21, 6:18 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAEKershaw, Lancaster57 min
Aug 21, 6:21 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAEAiken, Lexington54 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2013Every river flood warning in 2013

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.