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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

January 14, 2015Lenoir County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at Jan 14, 2015, 8:40 PM EST for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 16, 2015, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 16 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 14, 2015, 8:40 PM EST (01:40 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 16, 2015, 1:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 31, 2015, 5:24 PM EST
In force
16 days
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Lenoir County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 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 Neuse River at Kinston (KINN7).

Action stage
13 ft
Minor stage
14 ft
Moderate stage
18 ft
Major stage
21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02089500, 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 Jan 14, 4:23 PM EST, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 14, 4:23 PM EST, 4 hours 17 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 14, 8:37 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningMHXPitt5 days

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.