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River Flood Warning 58, NWS Tallahassee, FL

December 4, 2018Wakulla County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this river flood warning at Dec 4, 2018, 6:37 AM EST for Wakulla County, Florida. It took effect at Dec 4, 2018, 7:58 AM EST. It was in force for 37 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 4, 2018, 6:37 AM EST (11:37 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 4, 2018, 7:58 AM EST
Expired: Dec 5, 2018, 9:15 PM EST
In force: 37 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Wakulla County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:36 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 Sopchoppy River near Sopchoppy (FR 343) (SOPF1). The gauge peaked at 29.82 ft at Dec 4, 2018, 8:00 PM EST.

Action stage: 20 ft
Minor stage: 28 ft
Moderate stage: 30 ft
Major stage: 34 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02327100, 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 4, 6:26 AM EST, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 4, 6:26 AM EST, 11 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
Dec 4, 9:46 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Madison	7 days
Dec 4, 10:43 AM EST	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay	11 hr
Dec 3, 9:30 PM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	8 days
Dec 4, 10:45 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Decatur, Miller, Seminole	3 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Florida, 2018 Every 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.