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River Flood Warning 6, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 5, 2019Dixie County, Levy County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this river flood warning at Jan 5, 2019, 10:36 AM EST for Dixie County, Levy County, Florida. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 5, 2019, 10:36 AM EST (15:36 UTC)
Expired: Jan 5, 2019, 8:56 PM EST
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Dixie County, FL, Levy County, FL

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:39 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 Suwannee River at Fowlers Bluff (in NAVD88) (FWBF1).

Action stage: 3.5 ft
Minor stage: 5 ft
Moderate stage: 7.5 ft
Major stage: 9 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02323590, 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, 15 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 4, 6:42 PM EST, 15 hours 54 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, 9:35 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Decatur	57 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Florida, 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.