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River Flood Warning 78, NWS Raleigh, NC

December 26, 2020Franklin County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this river flood warning at Dec 26, 2020, 2:43 AM EST for Franklin County, North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 26, 2020, 6:18 AM EST. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 26, 2020, 2:43 AM EST (07:43 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 26, 2020, 6:18 AM EST
Expired
Dec 27, 2020, 5:51 AM EST
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Franklin County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:44 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 Louisburg (LOUN7). The gauge peaked at 20.57 ft at Dec 26, 2020, 3:00 PM EST.

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Action stage
20 ft
Minor stage
20 ft
Moderate stage
22 ft
Major stage
23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02081747, 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 Dec 25, 6:25 PM EST, 8 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 25, 6:25 PM EST, 8 hours 18 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.