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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 13, 2013Lenoir County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at Jun 13, 2013, 9:16 AM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jun 14, 2013, 10:02 PM EDT. It was in force for 6 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2013, 9:16 AM EDT (13:16 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 14, 2013, 10:02 PM EDT
Expired: Jun 20, 2013, 11:01 AM EDT
In force: 6 days
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Flood severity: Minor

County Lenoir County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Neuse River at Kinston (KINN7). The gauge peaked at 15.78 ft at Jun 17, 2013, 4:00 PM EDT.

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02089500, 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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jun 13, 3:14 AM EDT, 6 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:14 AM EDT, 6 hours 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 6:37 AM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin, Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt	55 min
Jun 13, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		92 min
Jun 13, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 7 more	66 min
Jun 13, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		56 min
Jun 13, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow and 1 more	48 min

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.