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River Flood Warning 26, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

September 16, 2018Jones County, Lenoir County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at Sep 16, 2018, 7:42 AM EDT for Jones County, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 16, 2018, 7:42 AM EDT (11:42 UTC)
Expired: Oct 11, 2018, 11:27 AM EDT
In force: 25 days
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Major

Counties Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC

The river

Written for the forecast point Neuse River at Kinston (KINN7). The gauge peaked at 25.76 ft at Sep 21, 2018, 4:00 PM EDT.

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02089500, 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 Sep 16, 6:31 AM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 6:31 AM EDT, 1 hour 11 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
Sep 15, 9:13 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Hyde	42 hr
Sep 15, 9:13 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	MHX	Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Pamlico, Tyrrell, Washington	56 hr
Sep 15, 11:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico	60 hr
Sep 16, 12:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow	72 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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.