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River Flood Warning 5, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 13, 2025Onslow County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this river flood warning at May 13, 2025, 11:58 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2025, 11:58 PM EDT (03:58 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2025, 9:28 PM EDT
In force: 22 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Onslow County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point New River near Gum Branch (GUMN7).

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 22 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02093000, 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 May 13, 11:05 PM EDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 11:05 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 11:07 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 13, 5:59 PM EDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 6:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 12:54 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	MHX	Jones	4 days
May 14, 1:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	39 min
May 14, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	49 min
May 14, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Wayne	35 min
May 14, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort	31 min
May 14, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin, Lenoir	81 min
May 14, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	32 min
May 14, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Martin	35 min
May 14, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene	48 min
May 14, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	41 min
May 14, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin, Onslow	66 min
May 14, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Jones, Lenoir	36 min
May 14, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin, Pitt	34 min
May 14, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	38 min
May 14, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Jones	34 min
May 14, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	34 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.