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River Flood Warning 62, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 18, 2020Jones County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at Jun 18, 2020, 12:04 PM EDT for Jones County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jun 18, 2020, 2:33 PM EDT. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 2020, 12:04 PM EDT (16:04 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 18, 2020, 2:33 PM EDT
Expired: Jun 19, 2020, 9:27 PM EDT
In force: 31 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Jones County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Trent River West of Trenton (TNTN7). The gauge peaked at 14.17 ft at Jun 19, 2020, 2:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 13.5 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02092500, 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 18, 10:14 AM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 10:14 AM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 8:01 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	MHX	Dare	18 hr
Jun 18, 5:49 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	MHX	Jones	5 days
Jun 18, 12:09 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	MHX	Pitt	10 days

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.