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River Flood Warning 15, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this river flood warning at Dec 13, 2008, 11:58 AM EST for Appling County, Toombs County, Georgia. It took effect at Dec 20, 2008, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 63 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 13, 2008, 11:58 AM EST (16:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 20, 2008, 10:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2008, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 63 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Appling County, GA, Toombs County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Altamaha River near Baxley (BAXG1). The gauge peaked at 13.20 ft at Dec 22, 2008, 2:00 AM EST.
- Action stage
- 72.5 ft
- Minor stage
- 74.5 ft
- Moderate stage
- 80 ft
- Major stage
- 84 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02225000, 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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Dec 13, 8:32 AM EST, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 8:32 AM EST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Dec 13, 2:18 AM EST | Red Flag Warning | JAX | Suwannee | 15 hr |
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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.