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River Flood Warning 69, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 24, 2020Lenoir County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at Aug 24, 2020, 8:42 PM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 24, 2020, 8:42 PM EDT (00:42 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 2020, 8:29 PM EDT
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Lenoir County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 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 Neuse River at Kinston (KINN7). The gauge peaked at 14.73 ft at Aug 23, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT.

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Action stage
13 ft
Minor stage
14 ft
Moderate stage
18 ft
Major stage
21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02089500, 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 Aug 24, 6:21 PM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 6:21 PM EDT, 2 hours 21 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.