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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood warning at Jan 12, 2020, 6:54 AM EST for Henderson County, Transylvania County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 2020, 6:54 AM EST (11:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2020, 9:23 AM EST
- In force
- 50 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Henderson County, NC, Transylvania County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point French Broad River at Grove Bridge Rd, in Blantyre (BLAN7). The gauge peaked at 17.07 ft at Jan 12, 2020, 9:00 PM EST.
- Action stage
- 15 ft
- Minor stage
- 16 ft
- Moderate stage
- 19 ft
- Major stage
- 23 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03443000, 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 Jan 12, 6:44 AM EST, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 6:44 AM EST, 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jan 11, 7:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Transylvania | 43 min |
| Jan 11, 7:19 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 4 hr |
| Jan 11, 7:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford, Yancey | 31 min |
| Jan 11, 7:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Yancey | 52 min |
| Jan 11, 8:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell | 43 min |
| Jan 11, 8:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln and 2 more | 53 min |
| Jan 11, 8:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jan 11, 9:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | McDowell | 3 hr |
| Jan 11, 9:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Catawba, Davie, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln and 2 more | 49 min |
| Jan 11, 9:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 65 min |
| Jan 11, 10:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Davie, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 41 min |
| Jan 11, 10:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 17 min |
| Jan 11, 10:46 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 22 hr |
| Jan 11, 11:05 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 8 hr |
| Jan 11, 11:06 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 3 hr |
| Jan 12, 1:03 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 4 hr |
| Jan 12, 2:44 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Transylvania | 6 hr |
| Jan 12, 5:32 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 6 hr |
| Jan 11, 7:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 62 min |
| Jan 11, 7:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee | 51 min |
| Jan 11, 7:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Anderson | 36 min |
| Jan 11, 8:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood | 39 min |
| Jan 11, 8:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Pickens, Spartanburg | 45 min |
| Jan 11, 8:34 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens | 26 min |
| Jan 11, 8:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union | 49 min |
| Jan 11, 8:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union | 46 min |
| Jan 11, 9:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Union, York | 39 min |
| Jan 11, 9:36 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester, Union, York | 24 min |
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River Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2020Every 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.