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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 7, 2025Cumberland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this river flood warning at Jul 7, 2025, 11:21 PM EDT for Cumberland County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jul 8, 2025, 12:48 AM EDT. It was in force for 21 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 2025, 11:21 PM EDT (03:21 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 8, 2025, 12:48 AM EDT
Expired
Jul 8, 2025, 9:54 PM EDT
In force
21 hr
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Cumberland County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 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 Cape Fear River at Fayetteville (FAYN7). The gauge peaked at 35.56 ft at Jul 8, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT.

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Action stage
35 ft
Minor stage
35 ft
Moderate stage
48 ft
Major stage
58 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02104000, 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 Jul 7, 8:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 8:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 2:04 PM EDTFlood WatchRAHAlamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more60 hr
Jul 8, 3:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHHoke, Scotland59 min
Jul 8, 4:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHHarnett54 min
Jul 8, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland, Harnett46 min
Jul 8, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland, Harnett48 min
Jul 8, 5:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHCumberland37 min
Jul 8, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland, Sampson48 min
Jul 8, 5:58 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHHarnett2 hr
Jul 8, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson46 min
Jul 8, 6:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson, Wayne, Wilson21 min
Jul 8, 7:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHWarren53 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2025Every river flood warning in 2025

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.