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River Flood Warning 43, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 26, 2008Decatur County, Miller County, Seminole County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this river flood warning at Aug 26, 2008, 1:57 PM EDT for Decatur County, Miller County, Seminole County, Georgia. It was in force for 59 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 26, 2008, 1:57 PM EDT (17:57 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 2008, 1:07 AM EDT
In force: 59 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Flood severity: Major

Counties Decatur County, GA, Miller County, GA, Seminole County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Spring Creek near Iron City (CR 16) (IRCG1). The gauge peaked at 17.54 ft at Aug 27, 2008, 12:00 PM EDT.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 22 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02357000, 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 Aug 26, 10:29 AM EDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 10:29 AM EDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 8:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson	40 min
Aug 25, 8:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson	37 min
Aug 25, 8:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson, Washington	49 min
Aug 25, 11:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton	29 min
Aug 26, 12:33 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Holmes	27 min
Aug 26, 4:33 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Aug 26, 11:40 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes, Washington	36 hr
Aug 26, 12:03 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	TAE	Madison	36 hr
Aug 25, 8:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early, Miller, Seminole	39 min
Aug 25, 9:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Miller, Seminole	46 min
Aug 25, 10:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early, Miller	44 min
Aug 25, 8:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Coffee	24 min
Aug 26, 2:12 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Coffee, Geneva	18 min

Nearby

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.