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River Flood Warning 20, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this river flood warning at May 14, 2024, 10:03 PM EDT for Alamance County, North Carolina. It took effect at May 15, 2024, 4:07 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2024, 10:03 PM EDT (02:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 15, 2024, 4:07 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 15, 2024, 10:42 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Alamance County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Haw River at Haw River (HAWN7). The gauge peaked at 18.97 ft at May 15, 2024, 3:00 AM EDT.
- Action stage
- 16 ft
- Minor stage
- 18 ft
- Moderate stage
- 23 ft
- Major stage
- 27 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02096500, 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 May 14, 9:09 PM EDT, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 9:09 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Raleigh NC 310 PM EDT Tue May 14 2024 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-151915- 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- 310 PM EDT Tue May 14 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. There is a marginal risk of severe thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon and evening, with the main severe window expected between 4-9 PM. Local damaging wind gusts and large hail are the main hazards. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 14, 8:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Edgecombe, Wayne, Wilson | 64 min |
| May 14, 8:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Sampson | 25 min |
| May 15, 6:18 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | RAH | Chatham | 10 hr |
| May 15, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson | 47 min |
| May 15, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly | 50 min |
| May 15, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland | 43 min |
| May 15, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Moore, Richmond | 50 min |
| May 15, 3:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Stanly | 4 hr |
| May 15, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Scotland | 26 min |
| May 15, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson, Richmond | 60 min |
| May 15, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Sampson | 62 min |
| May 15, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 42 min |
| May 15, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Scotland | 39 min |
| May 15, 5:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Anson | 2 hr |
| May 15, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson, Richmond | 60 min |
| May 15, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Scotland | 47 min |
| May 15, 7:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Bladen | 49 min |
| May 15, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 49 min |
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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.