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River Flood Warning 18, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 6, 2013Gaston County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood warning at May 6, 2013, 6:54 AM EDT for Gaston County, North Carolina. It took effect at May 6, 2013, 10:25 AM EDT. It was in force for 72 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2013, 6:54 AM EDT (10:54 UTC)
In effect from: May 6, 2013, 10:25 AM EDT
Expired: May 9, 2013, 10:24 AM EDT
In force: 72 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Gaston County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point SF Catawba River below George Poston Park, 1 N Lowell (LOWN7).

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 15.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02145000, 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 6, 6:34 AM EDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 6:34 AM EDT, 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 6:08 AM EDT, 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 6, 4:10 AM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 4:14 AM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 4:16 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 4:19 AM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 8:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey	6 hr
May 5, 8:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	4 hr
May 5, 9:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cleveland	3 hr
May 5, 9:41 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Madison	5 hr
May 5, 9:41 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Swain	12 hr
May 5, 10:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	4 hr
May 5, 10:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Haywood, Transylvania	2 hr
May 5, 11:44 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Buncombe	33 hr
May 5, 11:44 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Buncombe	38 hr
May 5, 11:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cleveland	7 hr
May 6, 12:17 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	4 hr
May 6, 2:12 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	3 hr
May 6, 2:23 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Madison	8 hr
May 6, 2:29 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey	4 hr
May 6, 4:07 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Catawba, Gaston, Lincoln	113 min
May 6, 5:19 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Gaston	12 hr
May 6, 6:29 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell	4 hr
May 6, 9:04 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Buncombe	3 hr
May 6, 10:52 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	McDowell, Mitchell	4 hr
May 6, 12:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	49 min
May 6, 12:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston, Lincoln	44 min
May 6, 1:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Catawba	44 min
May 6, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	46 min
May 6, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	32 min
May 6, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	31 min
May 6, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	23 min
May 6, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	51 min
May 6, 4:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Burke	6 hr
May 6, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Iredell	59 min
May 6, 4:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Burke, Caldwell, Catawba	6 hr
May 6, 4:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Catawba	6 hr
May 6, 5:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Catawba, Iredell	6 hr
May 6, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell	57 min
May 6, 6:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Catawba, Iredell	8 hr
May 6, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	29 min
May 6, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Davie, Iredell	60 min
May 5, 9:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	3 hr
May 6, 12:07 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	6 hr
May 6, 1:02 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Cherokee, York	36 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.