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River Flood Warning 56, NWS Wilmington, NC

August 9, 2020Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this river flood warning at Aug 9, 2020, 1:55 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 9, 2020, 1:55 PM EDT (17:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2020, 9:29 PM EDT
In force: 32 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Robeson County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Lumber River at Lumberton (LBRN7).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Aug 8, 7:35 PM EDT, 18 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 7:35 PM EDT, 18 hours 20 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
Aug 9, 2:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover	67 min
Aug 9, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover	60 min
Aug 9, 2:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	3 hr
Aug 9, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	57 min
Aug 9, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	28 min
Aug 9, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	66 min
Aug 9, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	56 min
Aug 9, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	61 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North 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.