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River Flood Warning 24, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

December 24, 2015Greene County, Lenoir County, Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at Dec 24, 2015, 9:33 AM EST for Greene County, Lenoir County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 24, 2015, 3:00 PM EST. It was in force for 15 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 24, 2015, 9:33 AM EST (14:33 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 24, 2015, 3:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 8, 2016, 7:50 PM EST
In force: 15 days
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Greene County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Pitt County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:33 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 Contentnea Creek at Hookerton (HOKN7). The gauge peaked at 13.80 ft at Jan 5, 2016, 11:00 AM EST.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02091500, 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 Dec 23, 3:59 PM EST, 17 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 3:59 PM EST, 17 hours 34 minutes before

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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
Dec 23, 8:47 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene	58 min
Dec 23, 9:47 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Lenoir	43 min
Dec 23, 11:15 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort, Tyrrell	60 min
Dec 24, 12:19 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pamlico	56 min
Dec 24, 1:20 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones	55 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.