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River Flood Warning 38, NWS Charleston, WV

April 5, 2025Scioto County, Ohio; Greenup County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this river flood warning at Apr 5, 2025, 12:39 PM EDT for Scioto County, Ohio; Greenup County, Kentucky. It took effect at Apr 6, 2025, 1:23 PM EDT. It was in force for 42 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 5, 2025, 12:39 PM EDT (16:39 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 6, 2025, 1:23 PM EDT
Expired
Apr 8, 2025, 7:50 AM EDT
In force
42 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Greenup County, KY, Scioto County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:43 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 Ohio River at Lloyd Greenup Lock (GNUK2). The gauge peaked at 54.67 ft at Apr 7, 2025, 10:00 AM EDT.

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Action stage
52 ft
Minor stage
54 ft
Moderate stage
56 ft
Major stage
62 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03216600, 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 Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Apr 4, 7:00 PM EDT, 17 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 7:00 PM EDT, 17 hours 39 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 5, 3:56 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningRLXMason43 hr
Apr 5, 7:36 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXBoone, Lincoln24 min
Apr 5, 12:37 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningRLXJackson, Wood32 hr
Apr 5, 12:38 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningRLXCabell, Wayne24 hr
Apr 5, 12:38 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningRLXWood24 hr
Apr 5, 12:39 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningRLXJackson, Mason32 hr
Apr 5, 3:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXLincoln30 min
Apr 5, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone, Lincoln, Wayne24 min
Apr 5, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone, Kanawha, Lincoln34 min
Apr 5, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone, Kanawha31 min
Apr 5, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXClay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas34 min
Apr 5, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXClay, Nicholas, Webster34 min
Apr 5, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatRLXPocahontas, Randolph, Webster32 min
Apr 5, 6:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPocahontas, Randolph, Webster33 min
Apr 5, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPocahontas, Randolph33 min
Apr 5, 1:01 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXMorgan29 min
Apr 5, 1:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMorgan15 min
Apr 5, 11:50 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningRLXMorgan33 hr
Apr 5, 12:35 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningRLXLawrence55 hr
Apr 5, 3:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXLawrence31 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.