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River Flood Warning 22, NWS Wilmington, NC

September 3, 2019Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this river flood warning at Sep 3, 2019, 11:39 PM EDT for Pender County, North Carolina. It took effect at Sep 7, 2019, 12:30 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 3, 2019, 11:39 PM EDT (03:39 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 7, 2019, 12:30 PM EDT
Expired: Sep 15, 2019, 9:00 AM EDT
In force: 8 days
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point N.E. Cape Fear River near Burgaw (BGWN7).

Action stage: 7 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 12 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02108566, 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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Sep 3, 8:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 8:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 4, 2:51 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson	50 hr
Sep 4, 7:49 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	24 hr
Sep 4, 7:49 PM EDT	Rip Current Statement	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	24 hr
Sep 4, 10:12 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ILM	Horry	21 days

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.