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River Flood Warning 59, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 7, 2020Martin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at Jun 7, 2020, 2:15 PM EDT for Martin County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jun 8, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 2020, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 8, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Jun 15, 2020, 9:40 AM EDT
In force
7 days
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Martin County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Roanoke River at Williamston (WLLN7).

Action stage
10.5 ft
Minor stage
12 ft
Moderate stage
13 ft
Major stage
15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02081054, 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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jun 6, 7:24 PM EDT, 18 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 7:24 PM EDT, 18 hours 51 minutes before
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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.