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River Flood Warning 14, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood warning at Aug 2, 2018, 10:31 AM EDT for Henderson County, Transylvania County, North Carolina. It took effect at Aug 2, 2018, 3:12 PM EDT. It was in force for 3 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2018, 10:31 AM EDT (14:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 2, 2018, 3:12 PM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2018, 7:38 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 days
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Henderson County, NC, Transylvania County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point French Broad River at Grove Bridge Rd, in Blantyre (BLAN7). The gauge peaked at 17.74 ft at Aug 4, 2018, 6:00 AM EDT.
- Action stage
- 15 ft
- Minor stage
- 16 ft
- Moderate stage
- 19 ft
- Major stage
- 23 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03443000, 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Aug 2, 6:44 AM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 6:44 AM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 1, 8:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Union | 36 min |
| Aug 1, 9:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 29 min |
| Aug 2, 11:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rutherford | 43 min |
| Aug 2, 11:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 11:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 12:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 12:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 9 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander, Catawba | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 2:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie, Iredell | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 4:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Union | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 4:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 5:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 5 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander, Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander, Catawba, Davie, Iredell, Lincoln, Rowan | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 6:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Gaston | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 6:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Iredell | 110 min |
| Aug 2, 6:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander, Catawba, Davie, Iredell, Lincoln, Rowan | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 7:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Iredell | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Iredell, Mecklenburg | 9 hr |
| Aug 1, 9:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 44 min |
| Aug 1, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 52 min |
| Aug 1, 9:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 29 min |
| Aug 1, 10:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 29 min |
| Aug 1, 10:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 36 min |
| Aug 1, 10:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 26 min |
| Aug 1, 11:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 41 min |
| Aug 1, 11:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens | 22 min |
| Aug 2, 12:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 44 min |
| Aug 2, 12:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 1:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 1:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 9:00 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 24 min |
| Aug 2, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 23 min |
| Aug 2, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 6:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 45 min |
| Aug 1, 8:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Elbert | 24 min |
| Aug 1, 9:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Franklin | 43 min |
| Aug 1, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert, Franklin, Hart | 48 min |
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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.