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River Flood Warning 22, NWS Charleston, SC

December 26, 2019Hampton County, Jasper County, South Carolina; Effingham County, Screven County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this river flood warning at Dec 26, 2019, 9:04 AM EST for Hampton County, Jasper County, South Carolina; Effingham County, Screven County, Georgia. It took effect at Dec 27, 2019, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 20 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 26, 2019, 9:04 AM EST (14:04 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 27, 2019, 1:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 16, 2020, 9:04 AM EST
In force: 20 days
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Effingham County, GA, Screven County, GA, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Savannah River near Clyo (CLYG1).

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 11 ft
Moderate stage: 15 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02198500, 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 Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Dec 25, 6:29 PM EST, 14 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 25, 6:29 PM EST, 14 hours 35 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 26, 5:01 AM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	CHS		4 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2019 River Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2019 Every river flood warning in 2019

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.