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River Flood Warning 6, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

March 12, 2014Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at Mar 12, 2014, 7:23 PM EDT for Pitt County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 13, 2014, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 42 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 12, 2014, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 13, 2014, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 14, 2014, 8:21 PM EDT
In force
42 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Pitt County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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 Tar River at Greenville (PGVN7).

Action stage
12 ft
Minor stage
13 ft
Moderate stage
17 ft
Major stage
19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02084000, 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 Mar 12, 6:42 PM EDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 6:42 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 12, 3:44 AM EDTWind AdvisoryMHXBeaufort, Dare, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 6 more36 hr
Mar 12, 3:00 PM EDTFire Weather WatchMHXBeaufort, Dare, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 6 more12 hr
Mar 12, 7:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXGreene, Lenoir, Pitt53 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2014Every river flood warning in 2014

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.