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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Wilmington, NC

March 16, 2025Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this river flood warning at Mar 16, 2025, 10:10 AM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 16, 2025, 9:30 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 2025, 10:10 AM EDT (14:10 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 16, 2025, 9:30 PM EDT
Expired: Mar 21, 2025, 3:54 AM EDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Robeson County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Lumber River at Lumberton (LBRN7).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 16, 9:52 AM EDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 9:52 AM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 16, 6:32 AM EDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 16, 9:29 AM EDT, 41 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 16, 10:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	61 min
Mar 16, 11:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen, Columbus, Robeson	75 min
Mar 16, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	46 min
Mar 16, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	30 min
Mar 16, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		85 min
Mar 16, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	24 min
Mar 16, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		63 min
Mar 16, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	26 min
Mar 16, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	31 min
Mar 16, 7:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Pender	36 min
Mar 16, 7:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		65 min
Mar 16, 9:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington, Florence, Marlboro, Williamsburg	61 min
Mar 16, 12:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marion, Williamsburg	44 min

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.