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River Flood Warning 51, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this river flood warning at Dec 27, 2018, 10:37 AM EST for Bladen County, North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 28, 2018, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 20 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 27, 2018, 10:37 AM EST (15:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 28, 2018, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 18, 2019, 9:04 AM EST
- In force
- 20 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 15:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Cape Fear River at W.O. Huske Lock (STPN7). The gauge peaked at 14.73 ft at Jan 6, 2019, 5:00 PM EST.
- Action stage
- 41 ft
- Minor stage
- 42 ft
- Moderate stage
- 55 ft
- Major stage
- 65 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02105500, 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 27, 5:52 AM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 27, 5:52 AM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Dec 27, 11:53 AM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | New Hanover | 3 hr |
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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.