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River Flood Warning 35, NWS Jacksonville, FL

December 15, 2018Columbia County, Gilchrist County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this river flood warning at Dec 15, 2018, 10:12 AM EST for Columbia County, Gilchrist County, Florida. It took effect at Dec 16, 2018, 11:00 PM EST. It was in force for 33 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 15, 2018, 10:12 AM EST (15:12 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 16, 2018, 11:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 19, 2019, 2:01 AM EST
In force
33 days
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Moderate

Counties Columbia County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Santa Fe River near Fort White (in NAVD88) (FWHF1). The gauge peaked at 4.69 ft at Dec 29, 2018, 8:00 AM EST.

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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 Dec 14, 4:20 PM EST, 17 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 14, 4:20 PM EST, 17 hours 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 14, 7:18 PM ESTAreal Flood WarningJAXMarion9 hr
Dec 14, 7:22 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXAlachua, Gilchrist3 hr
Dec 14, 8:10 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXBaker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Marion and 4 more3 hr
Dec 14, 8:57 PM ESTAreal Flood WarningJAXPutnam3 hr
Dec 14, 9:19 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXAlachua, Columbia, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Suwannee, Union3 hr
Dec 14, 10:17 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXMarion6 hr
Dec 14, 10:29 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Flagler, Gilchrist and 2 more6 hr
Dec 14, 11:10 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXMarion, Putnam4 hr
Dec 15, 10:10 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningJAXAlachua, Union10 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Florida, 2018Every river flood warning in 2018

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.