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River Flood Warning 11, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 24, 2008Jackson County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this river flood warning at Feb 24, 2008, 8:23 PM CST for Jackson County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 25, 2008, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 65 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 24, 2008, 8:23 PM CST (02:23 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 25, 2008, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Feb 27, 2008, 10:47 PM CST
In force: 65 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Flood severity: Minor

County Jackson County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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 Chipola River at Marianna (US 90) (MALF1). The gauge peaked at 20.95 ft at Feb 26, 2008, 1:00 AM CST.

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 18 ft
Moderate stage: 22 ft
Major stage: 26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02358789, 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Feb 24, 8:19 PM CST, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 8:19 PM CST, 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 24, 4:44 PM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
544 PM EST SUN FEB 24 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1100 AM     FLOOD            6 E QUITMAN             30.79N 83.46W
02/24/2008                   BROOKS             GA   EMERGENCY MNGR

            8 CAMPERS REQUESTED EMERGENCY EVACUATION AT BLUE SPRINGS
            LANE.1 PORTABLE SHELTER WASHED AWAY.

&&

FOURNIER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 25, 9:23 AM CST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Wakulla	24 hr
Feb 25, 11:15 AM CST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Calhoun	5 days
Feb 25, 1:40 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	24 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Florida, 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.