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River Flood Warning 12, NWS Wilmington, NC

March 6, 2015Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this river flood warning at Mar 6, 2015, 9:49 AM EST for Bladen County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 7, 2015, 4:20 AM EST. It was in force for 59 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 2015, 9:49 AM EST (14:49 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 7, 2015, 4:20 AM EST
Expired
Mar 9, 2015, 4:24 PM EDT
In force
59 hr
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 14:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Cape Fear River at W.O. Huske Lock (STPN7). The gauge peaked at 10.76 ft at Mar 7, 2015, 11:00 PM EST.

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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 5, 6:51 PM EST, 14 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 6:51 PM EST, 14 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 10:01 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryILM8 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2015Every river flood warning in 2015

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.