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River Flood Warning 26, NWS Columbia, SC

February 19, 2020Orangeburg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this river flood warning at Feb 19, 2020, 10:04 AM EST for Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It took effect at Feb 20, 2020, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 7 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 19, 2020, 10:04 AM EST (15:04 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 20, 2020, 1:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 27, 2020, 11:25 AM EST
In force: 7 days
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Orangeburg County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point N. Fork Edisto River at Orangeburg (ORBS1). The gauge peaked at 8.23 ft at Feb 21, 2020, 5:00 PM EST.

Action stage: 7 ft
Minor stage: 8 ft
Moderate stage: 10 ft
Major stage: 11.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02173500, 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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Feb 19, 6:40 AM EST, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 6:40 AM EST, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 19, 2:44 AM EST	River Flood Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Richland	21 days
Feb 19, 2:56 AM EST	River Flood Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington, Richland	7 days
Feb 19, 2:59 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	CAE	Chesterfield, Lancaster	31 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2020 Every river flood warning in 2020

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.