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River Flood Advisory 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 7, 2014Henderson County, Transylvania County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood advisory at Apr 7, 2014, 10:14 AM EDT for Henderson County, Transylvania County, North Carolina. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 7, 2014, 10:14 AM EDT (14:14 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 2014, 10:10 PM EDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Henderson County, NC, Transylvania County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point French Broad River at Grove Bridge Rd, in Blantyre (BLAN7).

Action stage: 15 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 19 ft
Major stage: 23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03443000, 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood advisory went out at Apr 6, 5:34 PM EDT, 16 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 5:34 PM EDT, 16 hours 40 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
Apr 7, 5:53 AM EDT	Flood Watch	GSP	Graham, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Swain, Transylvania	12 hr
Apr 7, 7:48 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania	72 min
Apr 7, 9:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan, Union	38 min
Apr 7, 9:33 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Oconee and 3 more	117 min

Nearby

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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.