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River Flood Warning 12, NWS Wilmington, NC

March 7, 2014Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this river flood warning at Mar 7, 2014, 3:23 PM EST for Bladen County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 8, 2014, 12:15 PM EST. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 7, 2014, 3:23 PM EST (20:23 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 8, 2014, 12:15 PM EST
Expired: Mar 13, 2014, 9:13 PM EDT
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Bladen County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Cape Fear River at W.O. Huske Lock (STPN7).

Action stage: 41 ft
Minor stage: 42 ft
Moderate stage: 55 ft
Major stage: 65 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02105500, 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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 7, 12:20 PM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 12:20 PM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 6, 7:59 PM EST	River Flood Warning	ILM	Robeson	11 days
Mar 6, 11:47 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		58 min
Mar 7, 12:02 AM EST	Wind Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	12 hr
Mar 7, 12:25 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender	3 hr
Mar 7, 1:36 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		54 min
Mar 7, 6:07 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	ILM		28 hr
Mar 7, 9:48 AM EST	River Flood Warning	ILM	Darlington, Florence	5 days

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.