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River Flood Warning 21, NWS Columbia, SC

November 13, 2018Chesterfield County, Marlboro County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this river flood warning at Nov 13, 2018, 4:48 AM EST for Chesterfield County, Marlboro County, South Carolina. It took effect at Nov 13, 2018, 12:09 PM EST. It was in force for 6 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 13, 2018, 4:48 AM EST (09:48 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 13, 2018, 12:09 PM EST
Expired: Nov 19, 2018, 4:28 AM EST
In force: 6 days
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Chesterfield County, SC, Marlboro County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:50 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 Pee Dee River at Cheraw (CHES1).

Action stage: 20 ft
Minor stage: 30 ft
Moderate stage: 36 ft
Major stage: 42 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02130000, 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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Nov 13, 4:23 AM EST, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 13, 4:23 AM EST, 25 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 12, 9:34 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Lexington, Richland	116 min
Nov 12, 10:50 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	CAE	Lexington, Richland	115 min
Nov 13, 12:07 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington and 3 more	113 min
Nov 13, 8:05 AM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Edgefield, McCormick	115 min

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.