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River Flood Warning 31, NWS Tallahassee, FL

December 22, 20154 counties in Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this river flood warning at Dec 22, 2015, 11:32 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Dec 23, 2015, 5:27 AM CST. It was in force for 22 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 22, 2015, 11:32 AM CST (17:32 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 23, 2015, 5:27 AM CST
Expired
Jan 14, 2016, 1:15 AM CST
In force
22 days
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Liberty County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Apalachicola River near Blountstown (BLOF1).

Action stage
13 ft
Minor stage
17 ft
Moderate stage
23.5 ft
Major stage
26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02358700, 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 Dec 22, 9:00 AM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 22, 9:00 AM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 22, 5:37 AM CST, 5 hours 55 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 22, 12:30 AM CSTSpecial Marine WarningTAE2 hr
Dec 22, 12:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBay, Holmes, Walton, Washington78 min
Dec 22, 2:20 AM CSTSpecial Marine WarningTAE115 min
Dec 22, 3:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBay, Calhoun, Gulf, Jackson, Washington58 min
Dec 22, 4:17 AM CSTSpecial Marine WarningTAE88 min
Dec 22, 5:40 AM CSTSpecial Marine WarningTAE2 hr
Dec 22, 12:45 PM CSTRip Current StatementTAEBay, Gulf, Walton30 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Florida, 2015Every river flood warning in 2015

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.