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River Flood Warning 6, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

February 24, 2019Swain County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood warning at Feb 24, 2019, 6:32 AM EST for Swain County, North Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 24, 2019, 6:32 AM EST (11:32 UTC)
Expired: Feb 24, 2019, 12:03 PM EST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Swain County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:34 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 Tuckasegee River below Everett St, in Bryson City (TKSN7). The gauge peaked at 10.53 ft at Feb 24, 2019, 9:00 AM EST.

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 13.5 ft
Major stage: 15.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03513000, 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 24, 3:39 AM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 3:39 AM EST, 2 hours 53 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 24, 12:27 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Swain	6 hr
Feb 24, 9:27 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Macon	12 hr
Feb 24, 12:00 PM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Swain	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.