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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 21, 2010Terrell County, Webster County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this river flood warning at Jan 21, 2010, 2:57 PM EST for Terrell County, Webster County, Georgia. It took effect at Jan 22, 2010, 7:36 AM EST. It was in force for 27 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 21, 2010, 2:57 PM EST (19:57 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 22, 2010, 7:36 AM EST
Expired: Jan 23, 2010, 11:00 AM EST
In force: 27 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Terrell County, GA, Webster County, GA

The river

Written for the forecast point Kinchafoonee Creek at Preston (SR 41) (PRSG1). The gauge peaked at 7.38 ft at Jan 22, 2010, 10:00 AM EST.

Action stage: 5 ft
Minor stage: 7 ft
Moderate stage: 10.5 ft
Major stage: 14 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02350600, 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 Jan 21, 2:20 PM EST, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 21, 2:20 PM EST, 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 21, 2:39 PM EST, 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 21, 12:26 PM EST, 2 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1226 PM EST THU JAN 21 2010

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

1210 AM     FLASH FLOOD      PERRY                   30.11N 83.58W
01/21/2010                   TAYLOR             FL   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SEVERAL TREES DOWN ON JOHNSON ROAD AND HIGHWAY 221

&&

PD

Special weather statement, Jan 21, 12:34 PM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1234 PM EST THU JAN 21 2010

FLZ028-029-034-211815-
DIXIE-LAFAYETTE-TAYLOR-
1234 PM EST THU JAN 21 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR DIXIE...LAFAYETTE AND
TAYLOR COUNTIES...

* UNTIL 115 PM EST/1215 PM CST/

AT 1231 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LURAVILLE TO 12
MILES SOUTHWEST OF PERRY...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF MAYO TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PERRY...MOVING EAST AT 45
MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS.

ALSO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH
MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS.

RELAY REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN TALLAHASSEE AT (8 5 0) 9 4 2 8 8 3 3. OR...YOU MAY CONTACT THE
NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

12-WATSON

Local storm report, Jan 21, 12:39 PM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1239 PM EST THU JAN 21 2010

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

1215 AM     FLASH FLOOD      MOULTRIE                31.18N 83.79W
01/21/2010                   COLQUITT           GA   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SEVERAL ROADS FLOODED. ESTIMATED 3 - 3 1/2 INCHES RAIN SO
            FAR.

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Special weather statement, Jan 21, 1:41 PM EST, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 21, 2:35 PM EST, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 21, 2:44 PM EST, 13 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
Jan 20, 9:50 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		55 min
Jan 20, 10:19 PM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Holmes, Washington	27 days
Jan 20, 10:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay	50 min
Jan 20, 11:07 PM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty	31 days
Jan 20, 11:09 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		36 min
Jan 21, 2:23 AM EST	Flood Watch	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	10 hr
Jan 21, 4:40 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	3 hr
Jan 21, 5:13 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson	23 min
Jan 21, 5:49 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	21 min
Jan 21, 6:52 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Walton	31 days
Jan 21, 7:41 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	2 hr
Jan 21, 7:43 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Jackson	47 min
Jan 21, 7:49 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		56 min
Jan 21, 8:05 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Liberty	25 min
Jan 21, 8:16 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Liberty	44 min
Jan 21, 8:20 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Wakulla	25 min
Jan 21, 8:31 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla	44 min
Jan 21, 8:34 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Gadsden	41 min
Jan 21, 8:45 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jan 21, 8:58 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	47 min
Jan 21, 9:05 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gulf	40 min
Jan 21, 9:07 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	23 min
Jan 21, 9:33 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Wakulla	12 days
Jan 21, 9:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Liberty	26 min
Jan 21, 9:51 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	114 min
Jan 21, 9:53 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	21 min
Jan 21, 10:00 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	30 min
Jan 21, 10:14 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Wakulla	31 min
Jan 21, 10:49 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		86 min
Jan 21, 10:57 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Taylor	48 min
Jan 21, 11:47 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lafayette, Taylor	43 min
Jan 21, 12:18 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Jan 21, 12:22 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Franklin, Wakulla	53 min
Jan 21, 12:35 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Lafayette, Taylor	55 min
Jan 21, 1:28 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jan 21, 1:29 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Lafayette, Taylor	61 min
Jan 21, 2:34 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor	86 min
Jan 21, 4:38 PM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	8 days
Jan 21, 6:33 PM EST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	TAE		17 hr
Jan 21, 6:40 PM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	TAE	Bay, Dixie, Franklin, Gulf, Taylor, Wakulla and 1 more	9 hr
Jan 20, 11:02 PM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Lowndes	8 days
Jan 20, 11:05 PM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Lee	7 days
Jan 21, 4:27 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Lee, Quitman and 3 more	3 hr
Jan 21, 7:26 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Decatur	7 days
Jan 21, 9:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady, Thomas	35 min
Jan 21, 10:30 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Dougherty and 8 more	2 hr
Jan 21, 10:34 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Dougherty	6 days
Jan 21, 10:38 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Baker, Mitchell	6 days
Jan 20, 10:19 PM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Dale	59 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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.