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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

February 22, 2019Gaston County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood warning at Feb 22, 2019, 5:05 AM EST for Gaston County, North Carolina. It took effect at Feb 22, 2019, 6:10 AM EST. It was in force for 30 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 22, 2019, 5:05 AM EST (10:05 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 22, 2019, 6:10 AM EST
Expired: Feb 23, 2019, 12:35 PM EST
In force: 30 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Gaston County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point SF Catawba River below George Poston Park, 1 N Lowell (LOWN7).

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 15.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02145000, 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Feb 22, 3:09 AM EST, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 3:09 AM EST, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 22, 1:44 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	3 hr
Feb 22, 2:08 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Mecklenburg	4 hr
Feb 22, 2:29 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg	4 hr
Feb 22, 4:06 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Union	3 hr
Feb 22, 5:34 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Macon	30 hr
Feb 22, 6:02 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg	9 hr
Feb 22, 8:22 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe	53 hr
Feb 22, 8:36 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	63 hr
Feb 22, 10:32 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Macon, Swain	30 hr
Feb 22, 1:16 PM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Swain	29 hr
Feb 22, 1:31 PM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Cleveland	17 hr
Feb 22, 3:29 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	20 hr
Feb 22, 1:21 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville	9 hr
Feb 22, 3:55 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	York	2 hr
Feb 22, 6:43 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Spartanburg	3 hr
Feb 22, 1:31 PM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Cherokee, York	21 hr
Feb 22, 12:43 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Rabun	33 hr
Feb 22, 12:21 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Habersham	12 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 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.