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River Flood Warning 18, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

December 2, 2015Buncombe County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood warning at Dec 2, 2015, 8:22 AM EST for Buncombe County, North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 2, 2015, 10:16 AM EST. It was in force for 21 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 2, 2015, 8:22 AM EST (13:22 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 2, 2015, 10:16 AM EST
Expired: Dec 3, 2015, 7:00 AM EST
In force: 21 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Buncombe County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Swannanoa River below Hendersonville Rd (NC 81), in Biltmore Village (2 S Asheville) (BLTN7). The gauge peaked at 9.77 ft at Dec 2, 2015, 8:00 AM EST.

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 14.5 ft
Major stage: 16.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03451000, 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Dec 2, 6:56 AM EST, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 2, 6:56 AM EST, 1 hour 26 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
Dec 1, 9:41 PM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union	12 hr
Dec 1, 10:06 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Iredell	3 hr
Dec 2, 12:30 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Graham, Jackson, Macon, Swain	3 hr
Dec 2, 1:52 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Jackson, Macon	3 hr
Dec 2, 3:37 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Graham, Jackson, Macon, Swain	4 hr
Dec 2, 3:41 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Swain	12 hr
Dec 2, 3:58 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe	12 hr
Dec 2, 4:36 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	McDowell	3 hr
Dec 2, 4:54 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	6 hr
Dec 2, 4:59 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Jackson, Macon	6 hr
Dec 2, 5:39 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Madison	3 hr
Dec 2, 5:50 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	McDowell	3 hr
Dec 2, 5:54 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Yancey	3 hr
Dec 2, 6:25 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Haywood	3 hr
Dec 2, 6:52 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	McDowell	3 hr
Dec 2, 7:19 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GSP	Swain	31 hr
Dec 2, 8:03 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Madison	12 hr
Dec 2, 8:15 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GSP	Madison	35 hr
Dec 2, 8:30 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Madison	3 hr
Dec 2, 8:32 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Mitchell	3 hr
Dec 2, 9:18 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe	12 hr
Dec 2, 9:31 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Macon, Swain	3 hr
Dec 2, 9:41 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	3 hr
Dec 2, 10:05 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	McDowell	3 hr
Dec 2, 10:49 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	3 hr
Dec 2, 11:47 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	12 hr
Dec 2, 12:22 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Macon, Swain	3 hr
Dec 2, 12:37 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	3 hr
Dec 2, 3:28 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	3 hr
Dec 2, 5:03 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	32 hr
Dec 2, 8:52 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	6 hr

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.