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River Flood Warning 24, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

August 22, 2015DeSoto County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this river flood warning at Aug 22, 2015, 11:05 AM EDT for DeSoto County, Florida. It took effect at Aug 24, 2015, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 36 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 2015, 11:05 AM EDT (15:05 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 24, 2015, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Aug 25, 2015, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
36 hr
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County DeSoto County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:09 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 Horse Creek near Arcadia at SR 72 (ARHF1).

Action stage
10 ft
Minor stage
12 ft
Moderate stage
14.5 ft
Major stage
16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02297310, 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Aug 21, 3:07 PM EDT, 19 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 3:07 PM EDT, 19 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 3:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWSumter47 min
Aug 22, 3:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHernando35 min
Aug 22, 4:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWPolk46 min
Aug 22, 4:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWCitrus42 min
Aug 22, 4:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWPasco49 min
Aug 22, 5:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWLevy39 min
Aug 22, 5:15 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW45 min
Aug 22, 5:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWPolk27 min
Aug 22, 5:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHillsborough38 min
Aug 22, 6:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWDeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Manatee38 min
Aug 22, 7:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWCharlotte, DeSoto, Lee, Manatee, Sarasota59 min
Aug 22, 7:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW40 min
Aug 22, 7:46 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW44 min

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.