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River Flood Warning 46, NWS Wilmington, NC

December 12, 2018Williamsburg County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this river flood warning at Dec 12, 2018, 8:03 PM EST for Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It took effect at Dec 16, 2018, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 10 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 12, 2018, 8:03 PM EST (01:03 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 16, 2018, 7:00 AM EST
Expired: Dec 26, 2018, 8:54 AM EST
In force: 10 days
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Williamsburg County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Black River at Kingstree (KINS1).

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 14 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02136000, 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 Dec 12, 6:10 PM EST, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 12, 6:10 PM EST, 1 hour 53 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
Dec 13, 3:14 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	ILM		3 days
Dec 13, 3:55 AM EST	Flash Flood Watch	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson	53 hr
Dec 13, 10:53 AM EST	River Flood Warning	ILM	Pender	10 days
Dec 12, 8:03 PM EST	River Flood Warning	ILM	Florence	7 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South 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.