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River Flood Warning 39, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 23, 2020Florence County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this river flood warning at May 23, 2020, 10:39 AM EDT for Florence County, South Carolina. It took effect at May 25, 2020, 12:20 PM EDT. It was in force for 19 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2020, 10:39 AM EDT (14:39 UTC)
In effect from: May 25, 2020, 12:20 PM EDT
Expired: Jun 13, 2020, 10:39 AM EDT
In force: 19 days
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Florence County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Lynches River at Effingham (EFFS1).

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02132000, 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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 22, 7:16 PM EDT, 15 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 7:16 PM EDT, 15 hours 23 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 9:44 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ILM	Pender	14 days
May 22, 9:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Williamsburg	39 min
May 22, 9:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Williamsburg	65 min
May 23, 1:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington, Florence, Marlboro	45 min

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.