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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Columbia, SC

February 12, 2024Edgefield County, McCormick County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this river flood warning at Feb 12, 2024, 3:07 PM EST for Edgefield County, McCormick County, South Carolina. It took effect at Feb 12, 2024, 10:31 PM EST. It was in force for 43 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 12, 2024, 3:07 PM EST (20:07 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 12, 2024, 10:31 PM EST
Expired: Feb 14, 2024, 5:24 PM EST
In force: 43 hr
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Edgefield County, SC, McCormick County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Stevens Creek near Modoc (MODS1). The gauge peaked at 20.83 ft at Feb 13, 2024, 4:00 AM EST.

Action stage: 17 ft
Minor stage: 19 ft
Moderate stage: 29 ft
Major stage: 35 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02196000, 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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Feb 12, 2:29 PM EST, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 2:29 PM EST, 38 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 12, 2:32 AM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 12 more	12 hr
Feb 12, 11:36 AM EST	River Flood Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	21 days
Feb 12, 11:36 AM EST	River Flood Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington, Richland	5 days
Feb 12, 11:36 AM EST	River Flood Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Richland	4 days
Feb 12, 11:36 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	CAE	Lexington, Richland	32 hr
Feb 12, 12:51 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Edgefield	3 hr
Feb 12, 2:06 PM EST	Wind Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 12 more	17 hr
Feb 12, 2:33 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	McCormick	110 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2024 Every river flood warning in 2024

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.