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River Flood Warning 9, NWS Jacksonville, FL

August 20, 2008Baker County, Nassau County, Florida; Camden County, Charlton County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this river flood warning at Aug 20, 2008, 12:29 PM EDT for Baker County, Nassau County, Florida; Camden County, Charlton County, Georgia. It took effect at Aug 22, 2008, 7:15 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 20, 2008, 12:29 PM EDT (16:29 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 22, 2008, 7:15 AM EDT
Expired: Sep 6, 2008, 11:30 AM EDT
In force: 15 days
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Baker County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:29 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 St. Marys River near Macclenny (MACF1).

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 15 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02231000, 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 Aug 20, 9:55 AM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 9:55 AM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 20, 5:51 AM EDT	Inland Tropical Storm Warning	JAX	Flagler, Nassau	59 hr
Aug 20, 5:51 AM EDT	Tropical Storm Warning	JAX	Flagler, Nassau	59 hr
Aug 20, 5:51 AM EDT	Tropical Storm Warning	JAX		59 hr
Aug 20, 4:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Clay, Duval, Saint Johns	117 min
Aug 20, 5:57 PM EDT	Lake Wind Advisory	JAX	Gilchrist, Suwannee	59 hr
Aug 20, 5:57 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more	59 hr
Aug 20, 5:58 PM EDT	Hurricane Local Statement	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Union	47 hr
Aug 20, 5:58 PM EDT	Hurricane Local Statement	JAX	Gilchrist, Suwannee	47 hr
Aug 20, 5:58 PM EDT	Hurricane Local Statement	JAX	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Clinch, Coffee and 4 more	47 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Florida, 2008 River Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2008 Every river flood warning in 2008

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.