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River Flood Warning 23, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 13, 2020Madison County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood warning at Apr 13, 2020, 8:29 AM EDT for Madison County, North Carolina. It took effect at Apr 13, 2020, 11:31 AM EDT. It was in force for 34 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 13, 2020, 8:29 AM EDT (12:29 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 13, 2020, 11:31 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 14, 2020, 9:03 PM EDT
In force: 34 hr
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Madison County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point French Broad River above Silver Mine Ck, in Hot Springs (HSPN7). The gauge peaked at 9.66 ft at Apr 13, 2020, 9:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 7.5 ft
Minor stage: 9.5 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03454500, 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 Apr 13, 7:04 AM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 7:04 AM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 6:47 AM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 13, 6:53 AM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 13, 8:12 AM EDT, 17 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 9:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham, Swain	46 min
Apr 12, 11:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe, Haywood, Jackson, Transylvania	6 hr
Apr 13, 12:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell, McDowell	26 min
Apr 13, 12:10 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain	5 hr
Apr 13, 12:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Graham, Macon, Swain	8 hr
Apr 13, 12:54 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell	4 hr
Apr 13, 1:09 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Jackson, Macon	4 hr
Apr 13, 1:29 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Haywood, Transylvania	6 hr
Apr 13, 1:58 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Jackson, Macon, Swain	6 hr
Apr 13, 2:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	6 hr
Apr 13, 2:46 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	GSP	Burke, Caldwell, McDowell	5 hr
Apr 13, 2:46 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Haywood	8 hr
Apr 13, 2:59 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Avery, Buncombe, Haywood, McDowell, Madison, Mitchell and 1 more	6 hr
Apr 13, 3:13 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Haywood, Jackson, Macon	5 hr
Apr 13, 3:18 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Transylvania	27 min
Apr 13, 3:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Iredell and 2 more	52 min
Apr 13, 3:31 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	58 hr
Apr 13, 3:41 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Henderson, Polk, Transylvania	34 min
Apr 13, 3:50 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Swain	7 hr
Apr 13, 3:55 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Swain	7 hr
Apr 13, 4:11 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	7 hr
Apr 13, 4:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston and 4 more	62 min
Apr 13, 4:27 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Catawba	5 hr
Apr 13, 4:36 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Swain	7 hr
Apr 13, 4:41 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Haywood	6 hr
Apr 13, 5:05 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Madison	20 hr
Apr 13, 5:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Davie, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Union	50 min
Apr 13, 5:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	42 min
Apr 13, 6:00 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	12 hr
Apr 13, 6:16 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Swain	3 hr
Apr 13, 7:23 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Transylvania	5 hr
Apr 13, 7:36 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe	12 hr
Apr 13, 7:54 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Macon, Swain	9 hr
Apr 13, 3:15 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	12 hr
Apr 13, 5:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Swain	6 hr
Apr 13, 5:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Burke	4 hr
Apr 12, 11:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg	35 min
Apr 13, 2:12 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Oconee	6 hr
Apr 13, 2:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	42 min
Apr 13, 3:03 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Oconee	27 min
Apr 13, 3:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens	62 min
Apr 13, 3:23 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	37 min
Apr 13, 3:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Anderson, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens	12 hr
Apr 13, 3:51 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Greenville, Pickens, Spartanburg	24 min
Apr 13, 4:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens and 1 more	42 min
Apr 13, 4:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Chester, Laurens, Union, York	62 min
Apr 13, 4:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenwood, Laurens	47 min
Apr 13, 6:48 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	9 hr
Apr 13, 4:16 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Stephens	7 hr

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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.