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River Flood Warning 29, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

December 27, 2018Henderson County, Transylvania County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood warning at Dec 27, 2018, 4:38 PM EST for Henderson County, Transylvania County, North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 28, 2018, 10:31 AM EST. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 27, 2018, 4:38 PM EST (21:38 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 28, 2018, 10:31 AM EST
Expired
Jan 1, 2019, 8:24 PM EST
In force
4 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 21:37 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).

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 Dec 27, 3:05 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 27, 3:05 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 27, 4:46 PM ESTRiver Flood AdvisoryGSPBuncombe, Henderson15 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2018Every 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.