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River Flood Warning 26, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this river flood warning at Aug 5, 2024, 6:44 AM EDT for Berkeley County, Georgetown County, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It took effect at Aug 5, 2024, 7:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 20 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2024, 6:44 AM EDT (10:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 5, 2024, 7:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2024, 6:44 AM EDT
- In force
- 20 days
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Berkeley County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Santee River near Jamestown (JAMS1). The gauge peaked at 15.59 ft at Aug 9, 2024, 9:00 PM EDT.
- Action stage
- 9 ft
- Minor stage
- 10 ft
- Moderate stage
- 17 ft
- Major stage
- 22 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02171700, 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 Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Aug 5, 6:10 AM EDT, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 6:10 AM EDT, 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 9:12 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 63 min | |
| Aug 5, 10:14 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 91 min | |
| Aug 5, 11:01 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CHS | Evans | 21 days |
| Aug 5, 11:01 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CHS | Effingham, Screven | 11 days |
| Aug 5, 11:01 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CHS | Tattnall, Toombs | 8 days |
| Aug 5, 11:01 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham | 21 days |
| Aug 5, 2:20 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 55 min | |
| Aug 5, 2:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Liberty and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 84 min | |
| Aug 5, 4:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 5:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bulloch, Effingham, Screven | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Liberty and 3 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Chatham | 28 min |
| Aug 5, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 53 min | |
| Aug 5, 6:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 62 min | |
| Aug 5, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 33 min | |
| Aug 5, 7:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Jenkins, Screven, Tattnall | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 7:44 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 91 min | |
| Aug 5, 7:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Jenkins, Screven | 12 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 3 hr |
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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.