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River Flood Warning 7, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 26, 2024Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at Jul 26, 2024, 8:40 PM EDT for Pitt County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jul 27, 2024, 5:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 2024, 8:40 PM EDT (00:40 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 27, 2024, 5:00 PM EDT
Expired: Aug 1, 2024, 3:21 AM EDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Pitt County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 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 Greenville (PGVN7). The gauge peaked at 14.01 ft at Jul 30, 2024, 5:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02084000, 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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jul 26, 6:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 6:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 8:14 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC
814 PM EDT Fri Jul 26 2024

NCZ196-203>205-280015-
East Carteret-Northern Outer Banks-Ocracoke Island-Hatteras Island-
814 PM EDT Fri Jul 26 2024

...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT SATURDAY
THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING...

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday.

Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the
Internet for more information about the following hazards.

   Moderate Rip Current Risk.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>092-094-193>195-198-199-280015-
Martin-Pitt-Washington-Tyrrell-Mainland Dare-Greene-Beaufort-
Mainland Hyde-Duplin-Lenoir-Jones-Pamlico-Northern Craven-
Southern Craven-West Carteret-Inland Onslow-Coastal Onslow-
814 PM EDT Fri Jul 26 2024

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday.

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 2:57 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MHX		15 hr
Jul 27, 4:36 AM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	MHX	Dare	15 hr
Jul 27, 4:53 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	MHX	Duplin	57 hr
Jul 27, 4:55 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	MHX	Jones	4 days

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.