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River Flood Warning 79, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this river flood warning at Dec 27, 2020, 6:08 AM EST for Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 27, 2020, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 27, 2020, 6:08 AM EST (11:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 27, 2020, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 31, 2020, 5:43 AM EST
- In force
- 4 days
- 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 11:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 20.08 ft at Dec 29, 2020, 3:00 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.
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 27, 4:05 AM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 27, 4:05 AM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 27, 2:29 AM EST, 3 hours 39 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Raleigh NC 229 AM EST Sun Dec 27 2020 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-280730- Person-Granville-Vance-Warren-Halifax-Forsyth-Guilford-Alamance- Orange-Durham-Franklin-Nash-Edgecombe-Davidson-Randolph-Chatham-Wake- Johnston-Wilson-Stanly-Montgomery-Moore-Lee-Harnett-Wayne-Anson- Richmond-Scotland-Hoke-Cumberland-Sampson- 229 AM EST Sun Dec 27 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. A vigorous storm system will cross the region on Friday. As it does, central NC could possibly see a round of thunderstorms with heavy downpours. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
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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.