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River Flood Warning 5, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this river flood warning at Feb 22, 2019, 11:21 PM EST for Chatham County, North Carolina. It took effect at Feb 23, 2019, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2019, 11:21 PM EST (04:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 23, 2019, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2019, 7:49 AM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Chatham County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Haw River near Bynum (BYNN7). The gauge peaked at 14.88 ft at Feb 24, 2019, 7:00 AM EST.
- Action stage
- 10 ft
- Minor stage
- 11 ft
- Moderate stage
- 15 ft
- Major stage
- 17 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02096960, 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 Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Feb 22, 8:10 PM EST, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 8:10 PM EST, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 12:31 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Alamance, Forsyth, Guilford, Orange, Person | 4 hr |
| Feb 23, 1:58 PM EST | River Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance | 38 hr |
| Feb 23, 1:58 PM EST | River Flood Warning | RAH | Chatham | 41 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:06 PM EST | River Flood Warning | RAH | Halifax, Northampton | 20 days |
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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.