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River Flood Warning 12, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 20, 2018Jones County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at Aug 20, 2018, 12:56 PM EDT for Jones County, North Carolina. It took effect at Aug 20, 2018, 1:41 PM EDT. It was in force for 70 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 20, 2018, 12:56 PM EDT (16:56 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 20, 2018, 1:41 PM EDT
Expired: Aug 23, 2018, 11:42 AM EDT
In force: 70 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Jones County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Trent River at Trenton (TRTN7).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 19 ft
Major stage: 24 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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Aug 20, 12:33 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 12:33 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 8:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	48 min
Aug 19, 9:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	56 min
Aug 19, 9:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	61 min
Aug 19, 11:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Pamlico	57 min
Aug 20, 12:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Jones	43 min
Aug 20, 1:32 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Craven, Jones	118 min
Aug 20, 2:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	41 min
Aug 20, 2:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Lenoir	42 min
Aug 20, 3:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	42 min
Aug 20, 3:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	45 min
Aug 20, 3:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort	42 min
Aug 20, 4:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	48 min
Aug 20, 5:14 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Craven, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow	2 hr
Aug 20, 5:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Jones	52 min
Aug 20, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		60 min
Aug 20, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	74 min
Aug 20, 6:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Craven, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow	113 min
Aug 20, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	64 min

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.