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River Flood Warning 33, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

December 23, 2013Gaston County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood warning at Dec 23, 2013, 11:37 AM EST for Gaston County, North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 23, 2013, 3:11 PM EST. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 23, 2013, 11:37 AM EST (16:37 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 23, 2013, 3:11 PM EST
Expired: Dec 24, 2013, 1:00 PM EST
In force: 22 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 16:39 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). The gauge peaked at 9.91 ft at Dec 23, 2013, 4:00 PM EST.

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 Dec 23, 9:49 AM EST, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 9:49 AM EST, 1 hour 48 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
Dec 22, 9:11 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Jackson, Macon	5 hr
Dec 22, 11:46 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	7 hr
Dec 23, 1:52 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	8 hr
Dec 23, 2:34 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GSP	Madison	30 hr
Dec 23, 3:39 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Macon, Swain	7 hr
Dec 23, 4:46 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus	3 hr
Dec 23, 6:34 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	3 hr
Dec 23, 6:40 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Iredell	3 hr
Dec 23, 7:34 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Burke	116 min
Dec 23, 8:21 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Union	3 hr
Dec 23, 9:31 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	5 hr
Dec 23, 9:38 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	14 hr
Dec 23, 2:40 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Mecklenburg	110 min
Dec 22, 8:44 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Oconee	6 hr
Dec 23, 2:39 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	8 hr
Dec 23, 7:40 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Chester, York	13 hr
Dec 23, 8:19 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union	3 hr
Dec 23, 7:48 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Elbert	2 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2013 Every 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.