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River Flood Warning 14, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 1, 2014Edgecombe County, Halifax County, Nash County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this river flood warning at May 1, 2014, 7:41 PM EDT for Edgecombe County, Halifax County, Nash County, North Carolina. It took effect at May 1, 2014, 10:36 PM EDT. It was in force for 21 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 1, 2014, 7:41 PM EDT (23:41 UTC)
In effect from
May 1, 2014, 10:36 PM EDT
Expired
May 2, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
21 hr
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Edgecombe County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Nash County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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 Fishing Creek near Enfield (EFDN7).

Action stage
15 ft
Minor stage
16 ft
Moderate stage
18 ft
Major stage
20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02083000, 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 Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 1, 3:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 3:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
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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.