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River Flood Warning 33, NWS Wilmington, NC

November 12, 2018Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this river flood warning at Nov 12, 2018, 8:54 PM EST for Bladen County, North Carolina. It took effect at Nov 14, 2018, 4:49 AM EST. It was in force for 7 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 12, 2018, 8:54 PM EST (01:54 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 14, 2018, 4:49 AM EST
Expired: Nov 20, 2018, 8:32 PM EST
In force: 7 days
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Bladen County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Cape Fear River at Elizabethtown (ELZN7).

Action stage: 20 ft
Minor stage: 25 ft
Moderate stage: 35 ft
Major stage: 42 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Nov 12, 7:16 PM EST, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 12, 7:16 PM EST, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 12, 8:54 PM EST	River Flood Warning	ILM	Bladen	10 days
Nov 13, 12:57 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		48 min
Nov 13, 1:04 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		41 min
Nov 13, 1:23 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Robeson	3 hr
Nov 13, 1:28 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		62 min
Nov 13, 1:37 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		53 min
Nov 13, 1:52 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	53 min
Nov 13, 2:25 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		51 min
Nov 13, 2:26 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		34 min
Nov 13, 2:50 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover	25 min
Nov 13, 2:56 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		49 min
Nov 13, 4:14 AM EST	River Flood Warning	ILM	Bladen	4 hr
Nov 13, 3:17 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	ILM		14 hr
Nov 13, 12:20 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Darlington, Marlboro	3 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.