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River Flood Warning 15, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

September 26, 2015Craven County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at Sep 26, 2015, 4:37 AM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 26, 2015, 4:37 AM EDT (08:37 UTC)
Expired: Sep 27, 2015, 9:26 PM EDT
In force: 41 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Craven County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 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 Swift Creek above Streets Ferry (SWFN7). The gauge peaked at 4.29 ft at Sep 26, 2015, 10:00 PM EDT.

Action stage: 4.5 ft
Minor stage: 5 ft
Moderate stage: 6 ft
Major stage: 8 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 0209205053, 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 Sep 26, 4:06 AM EDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 26, 4:06 AM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 26, 4:29 AM EDT, 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 26, 2:04 AM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
204 AM EDT SAT SEP 26 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0200 AM     COASTAL FLOOD    2 N HARLOWE             34.87N  76.74W
09/26/2015                   CRAVEN             NC   SPOTTER

            CLUBFOOT CREEK WATER LEVEL 3.9 FEET ABOVE NORMAL.

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EVENT NUMBER MHX1500326

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 26, 3:44 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Warning	MHX	Pamlico	23 hr
Sep 26, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		93 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2015 Every 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.