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River Flood Warning 30, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this river flood warning at Oct 11, 2020, 9:47 AM EDT for Henderson County, Transylvania County, North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 11, 2020, 4:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 11, 2020, 9:47 AM EDT (13:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 11, 2020, 4:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2020, 1:17 PM EDT
- In force
- 21 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 13:49 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 15.73 ft at Oct 12, 2020, 11:00 AM EDT.
- 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 Oct 11, 7:17 AM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 11, 7:17 AM EDT, 2 hours 30 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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| Oct 11, 2:49 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Jackson, Macon | 6 hr |
| Oct 11, 3:54 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 61 hr |
| Oct 11, 5:24 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 18 hr |
| Oct 11, 7:18 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 15 hr |
| Oct 11, 8:23 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Macon, Swain | 7 hr |
| Oct 11, 9:29 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Burke, Caldwell, Catawba | 2 hr |
| Oct 11, 9:39 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 7 hr |
| Oct 11, 12:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 35 min |
| Oct 11, 12:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 9 hr |
| Oct 11, 12:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 5 hr |
| Oct 11, 3:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Rowan | 11 hr |
| Oct 11, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 40 min |
| Oct 11, 6:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 25 min |
| Oct 11, 2:01 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Oconee | 8 hr |
| Oct 11, 5:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood | 45 min |
| Oct 11, 5:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 43 min |
| Oct 11, 6:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg, Union | 47 min |
| Oct 11, 6:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 41 min |
| Oct 11, 6:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union | 51 min |
| Oct 11, 7:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 36 min |
| Oct 11, 8:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester, York | 31 min |
| Oct 11, 9:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 51 min |
| Oct 11, 10:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 14 min |
| Oct 11, 4:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 29 min |
| Oct 11, 5:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 35 min |
| Oct 11, 6:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | York | 117 min |
| Oct 10, 11:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Habersham | 3 hr |
| Oct 11, 12:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Habersham | 8 hr |
| Oct 11, 12:56 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Stephens | 49 min |
| Oct 11, 1:31 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Rabun | 83 min |
| Oct 11, 2:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 6 hr |
| Oct 11, 7:59 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Habersham | 16 hr |
| Oct 11, 8:13 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 57 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.