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River Flood Warning 30, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 28, 2020Anson County, Stanly County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this river flood warning at May 28, 2020, 12:29 AM EDT for Anson County, Stanly County, North Carolina. It took effect at May 28, 2020, 12:55 AM EDT. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2020, 12:29 AM EDT (04:29 UTC)
In effect from: May 28, 2020, 12:55 AM EDT
Expired: May 28, 2020, 8:41 PM EDT
In force: 20 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Anson County, NC, Stanly County, NC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Rocky River NC near Norwood (NRWN7). The gauge peaked at 29.98 ft at May 28, 2020, 9:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 16 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 30 ft
Major stage: 34 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02126000, 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 Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 27, 9:57 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 9:57 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 11:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 27, 6:48 PM EDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Raleigh NC
648 PM EDT Wed May 27 2020

NCZ008>011-026>028-041-043-272345-
Edgecombe-Nash-Franklin-Vance-Warren-Wake-Halifax-Granville-Wilson-
648 PM EDT Wed May 27 2020

...A LINE OF STRONG SHOWERS WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF Edgecombe...
Nash...Franklin...Vance...Warren...northeastern Wake...
Halifax...Granville and northeastern Wilson Counties Until 745 PM
EDT....

At 647 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SHOWERS along a line extending from NEAR Creedmoor to 8 miles
east of Louisburg to NEAR Bruce...AND MOVING north AT 40 MPH.

Wind gusts up to 40 mph WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
Rocky Mount, Roanoke Rapids, Henderson, Tarboro, Oxford, Nashville,
Creedmoor, Louisburg, Warrenton and Halifax.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED WEAK ROTATION WITH THIS STORM. IF THE
STORM INTENSIFIES AND ROTATION STRENGTHENS...A WARNING MAY NEED TO BE
ISSUED.

&&

LAT...LON 3609 7731 3600 7741 3590 7734 3582 7735
      3583 7739 3580 7747 3571 7761 3595 7814
      3592 7869 3654 7879 3654 7790 3651 7790
      3648 7764 3641 7755 3632 7757 3632 7744
      3624 7738 3621 7738 3616 7727 3611 7723
TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 176DEG 33KT 3604 7866 3612 7814 3574 7748

Local storm report, May 27, 9:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 8:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Montgomery, Randolph, Stanly	3 hr
May 28, 1:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	24 min
May 28, 1:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	29 min
May 28, 2:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	48 min
May 28, 2:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	44 min
May 28, 6:10 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	RAH	Davidson, Davie	37 hr
May 28, 6:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance, Wake	65 min
May 28, 10:35 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	RAH	Halifax, Northampton	17 days
May 28, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Stanly	71 min
May 28, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Cumberland, Hoke, Richmond, Scotland	64 min
May 28, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland	52 min
May 28, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore and 1 more	49 min
May 28, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	59 min
May 28, 5:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Sampson	3 hr
May 28, 5:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Sampson	35 min
May 28, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Guilford, Orange, Randolph	61 min
May 28, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson	54 min
May 28, 6:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Sampson	3 hr
May 28, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	56 min
May 28, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Stanly	41 min
May 28, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Guilford	33 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.