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River Flood Warning 5, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 5, 2019Decatur County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this river flood warning at Jan 5, 2019, 9:35 AM EST for Decatur County, Georgia. It took effect at Jan 7, 2019, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 5, 2019, 9:35 AM EST (14:35 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 7, 2019, 10:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 7, 2019, 6:06 PM EST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Decatur County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:32 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 Flint River (GA) at Bainbridge (US 27) (BGEG1).

Action stage: 22 ft
Minor stage: 25 ft
Moderate stage: 27 ft
Major stage: 36 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02356000, 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 Jan 4, 6:42 PM EST, 14 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 4, 6:42 PM EST, 14 hours 53 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
Jan 4, 9:38 PM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	4 days
Jan 5, 10:36 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Dixie, Levy	10 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2019 Every river flood warning in 2019

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.