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River Flood Warning 74, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this river flood warning at Dec 20, 2020, 7:29 PM EST for Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 20, 2020, 9:55 PM EST. It was in force for 31 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 20, 2020, 7:29 PM EST (00:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 20, 2020, 9:55 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 22, 2020, 5:16 AM EST
- In force
- 31 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Edgecombe County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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 Tar River at Tarboro (TARN7). The gauge peaked at 19.16 ft at Dec 21, 2020, 8:00 AM EST.
- Action stage
- 17 ft
- Minor stage
- 19 ft
- Moderate stage
- 24 ft
- Major stage
- 32 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02083500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.
Nearby
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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.