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River Flood Warning 27, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood warning at Nov 15, 2018, 1:59 PM EST for Gaston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 20 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 2018, 1:59 PM EST (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2018, 9:32 AM EST
- In force
- 20 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 19:01 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 10.66 ft at Nov 15, 2018, 6:00 PM EST.
- 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 Nov 15, 12:40 PM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 12:40 PM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
120 PM EST THU NOV 15 2018
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1200 AM NON-TSTM WND DMG SALUDA 35.24N 82.35W
11/15/2018 POLK NC BROADCAST MEDIA
BROADCAST MEDIA REPORTED A TREE FELL ON AND DAMAGED A
HOME IN THE SALUDA AREA. PROBABLY DUE TO A COMBINATION
OF GUSTY WINDS AND SATURATED SOIL.
&&The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 5:37 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 6 hr |
| Nov 15, 6:53 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 5 hr |
| Nov 15, 7:24 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe, Burke, Henderson, McDowell, Rutherford | 5 hr |
| Nov 15, 7:44 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 7 hr |
| Nov 15, 8:44 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 4 hr |
| Nov 15, 10:38 AM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 26 hr |
| Nov 15, 10:50 AM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 26 hr |
| Nov 15, 10:57 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 21 hr |
| Nov 15, 3:44 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 6 hr |
| Nov 15, 4:23 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville | 8 hr |
| Nov 15, 9:11 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | York | 4 hr |
| Nov 15, 12:04 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 12:33 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Cherokee, York | 17 hr |
| Nov 15, 3:01 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 15 hr |
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.