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River Flood Warning 31, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 15, 2014Alachua County, Columbia County, Gilchrist County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this river flood warning at May 15, 2014, 10:24 AM EDT for Alachua County, Columbia County, Gilchrist County, Florida. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 2014, 10:24 AM EDT (14:24 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Alachua County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Santa Fe River near Fort White (in NAVD88) (FWHF1). The gauge peaked at 3.28 ft at May 15, 2014, 10:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 22 ft
Minor stage: 23 ft
Moderate stage: 25 ft
Major stage: 29 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02322500, 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 May 14, 4:02 PM EDT, 18 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 4:02 PM EDT, 18 hours 22 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
May 15, 4:30 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JAX	Suwannee	3 hr
May 15, 4:39 AM EDT	Flood Watch	JAX	Baker, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union	8 hr
May 15, 7:39 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Columbia, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Suwannee	3 hr
May 15, 8:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Gilchrist	40 min
May 15, 9:37 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JAX	Suwannee	113 min
May 15, 9:50 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Baker	3 hr
May 15, 10:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Union	40 min
May 15, 11:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Alachua	40 min
May 15, 11:53 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Alachua	112 min
May 15, 12:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JAX	Alachua	86 min
May 15, 12:35 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		40 min
May 15, 1:13 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		62 min
May 15, 1:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		65 min
May 15, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Putnam	48 min
May 15, 1:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Saint Johns	29 min
May 15, 1:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Putnam	46 min
May 15, 1:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Flagler, Putnam, Saint Johns	57 min
May 15, 2:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		114 min
May 15, 2:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Saint Johns	38 min
May 15, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		67 min
May 15, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		91 min
May 15, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clay	44 min
May 15, 12:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Bacon	35 min
May 15, 12:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Charlton	24 min
May 15, 1:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Appling, Bacon	24 min
May 15, 2:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Appling	28 min
May 15, 2:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Appling	35 min
May 15, 10:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Charlton	43 min
May 15, 10:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Charlton	48 min
May 15, 11:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Camden, Glynn	95 min

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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.