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River Flood Warning 19, NWS Charleston, SC

April 18, 2020Hampton County, Jasper County, South Carolina; Effingham County, Screven County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this river flood warning at Apr 18, 2020, 9:39 PM EDT for Hampton County, Jasper County, South Carolina; Effingham County, Screven County, Georgia. It took effect at Apr 19, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 25 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 18, 2020, 9:39 PM EDT (01:39 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 19, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired: May 14, 2020, 9:22 AM EDT
In force: 25 days
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Effingham County, GA, Screven County, GA, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Savannah River near Clyo (CLYG1).

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 11 ft
Moderate stage: 15 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02198500, 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 Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Apr 18, 8:51 PM EDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 8:51 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 3:30 AM EDT	Gale Watch	CHS		12 hr
Apr 19, 3:30 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CHS		41 hr
Apr 19, 12:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Beaufort	40 min
Apr 19, 12:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort	61 min
Apr 19, 12:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		68 min
Apr 19, 3:50 PM EDT	Gale Warning	CHS		22 hr
Apr 19, 7:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	CHS	Allendale, Hampton	11 hr
Apr 19, 9:33 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CHS	Tattnall, Toombs	16 days
Apr 19, 12:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Candler, Evans	23 min
Apr 19, 1:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Bulloch, Candler	35 min
Apr 19, 1:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bryan, Bulloch, Evans	14 min
Apr 19, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	McIntosh	53 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2020 River Flood Warnings in Georgia, 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.