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River Flood Warning 45, NWS Raleigh, NC

September 17, 2024Johnston County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this river flood warning at Sep 17, 2024, 1:37 PM EDT for Johnston County, North Carolina. It took effect at Sep 17, 2024, 1:51 PM EDT. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 17, 2024, 1:37 PM EDT (17:37 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 17, 2024, 1:51 PM EDT
Expired: Sep 18, 2024, 8:11 AM EDT
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Johnston County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Neuse River near Clayton (CLYN7). The gauge peaked at 9.62 ft at Sep 17, 2024, 10:00 PM EDT.

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 9 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02087500, 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 Sep 16, 7:27 PM EDT, 18 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 7:27 PM EDT, 18 hours 10 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 16, 9:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Cumberland, Sampson	3 hr
Sep 16, 11:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RAH	Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Harnett, Hoke and 11 more	4 hr
Sep 17, 9:49 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	RAH	Johnston	65 hr
Sep 17, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham, Franklin, Person	57 min
Sep 17, 5:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Durham, Franklin, Granville, Orange, Wake	2 hr
Sep 17, 6:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Durham, Franklin, Granville, Orange, Wake	108 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.