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River Flood Warning 19, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

October 10, 2018Gaston County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood warning at Oct 10, 2018, 9:55 PM EDT for Gaston County, North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 11, 2018, 5:21 PM EDT. It was in force for 35 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 10, 2018, 9:55 PM EDT (01:55 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 11, 2018, 5:21 PM EDT
Expired: Oct 13, 2018, 4:46 AM EDT
In force: 35 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Gaston County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point SF Catawba River below George Poston Park, 1 N Lowell (LOWN7). The gauge peaked at 10.57 ft at Oct 12, 2018, 1:00 PM EDT.

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 15.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02145000, 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 Oct 10, 7:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 10, 7:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 11, 3:45 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Polk, Transylvania	6 hr
Oct 11, 5:33 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford	6 hr
Oct 11, 7:10 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Burke, McDowell	5 hr
Oct 11, 7:52 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cleveland, Polk, Rutherford	3 hr
Oct 11, 8:11 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Yancey	5 hr
Oct 11, 8:43 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Avery, Caldwell, Mitchell	5 hr
Oct 11, 9:11 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	5 hr
Oct 11, 10:03 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cleveland	5 hr
Oct 11, 10:04 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	38 hr
Oct 11, 10:31 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Davie, Rowan	4 hr
Oct 11, 10:32 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Buncombe	10 hr
Oct 11, 10:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Iredell	4 hr
Oct 11, 10:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	21 min
Oct 11, 11:10 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Lincoln	5 hr
Oct 11, 11:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	51 min
Oct 11, 11:27 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Henderson	12 hr
Oct 11, 11:34 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson, Polk, Rutherford	4 hr
Oct 11, 11:36 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	30 hr
Oct 11, 11:55 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Burke, McDowell	13 hr
Oct 11, 12:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Gaston	3 hr
Oct 11, 1:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Avery, Mitchell	4 hr
Oct 11, 1:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell	18 hr
Oct 11, 2:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	6 hr
Oct 11, 2:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Davie, Rowan	6 hr
Oct 11, 3:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Alexander, Catawba, Iredell	4 hr
Oct 11, 3:11 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Cleveland	31 hr
Oct 11, 4:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Lincoln	6 hr
Oct 11, 5:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Mitchell	6 hr
Oct 11, 5:15 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	GSP	Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood and 11 more	11 hr
Oct 11, 7:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Iredell	6 hr
Oct 11, 2:42 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Chester, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens and 4 more	6 hr
Oct 11, 2:45 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Laurens, Union	30 min
Oct 11, 3:12 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Spartanburg, Union	15 min
Oct 11, 7:22 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	5 hr
Oct 11, 10:58 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cherokee	5 hr
Oct 11, 12:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	7 hr
Oct 11, 3:08 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Cherokee, York	33 hr
Oct 11, 7:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	12 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2018 Every river flood warning in 2018

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.