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River Flood Warning 18, NWS Jacksonville, FL

April 19, 2020Jeff Davis County, Montgomery County, Toombs County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this river flood warning at Apr 19, 2020, 8:47 AM EDT for Jeff Davis County, Montgomery County, Toombs County, Georgia. It took effect at Apr 21, 2020, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 20 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2020, 8:47 AM EDT (12:47 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 21, 2020, 6:00 AM EDT
Expired: May 11, 2020, 1:14 AM EDT
In force: 20 days
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Jeff Davis County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Toombs County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Altamaha River near Charlotteville (CHRG1). The gauge peaked at 19.15 ft at Apr 29, 2020, 6:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 25 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02224940, 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 Apr 19, 7:56 AM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 7:56 AM EDT, 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 19, 5:12 AM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 4:23 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	JAX		40 hr
Apr 19, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		57 min
Apr 19, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		67 min
Apr 19, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		42 min
Apr 19, 6:42 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis, Wayne	24 hr
Apr 19, 8:47 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	JAX	Appling, Tattnall, Toombs, Wayne	23 days
Apr 19, 11:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Jeff Davis	32 min
Apr 19, 11:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Appling	29 min
Apr 19, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Atkinson, Coffee	48 min
Apr 19, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Atkinson, Coffee	45 min
Apr 19, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Bacon, Pierce, Ware	46 min
Apr 19, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Atkinson	43 min
Apr 19, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clinch	45 min
Apr 19, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clinch	39 min
Apr 19, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	McIntosh	17 min
Apr 19, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clinch	34 min
Apr 19, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Atkinson	40 min
Apr 19, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Atkinson, Clinch, Coffee, Ware	41 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2020 Every river flood warning in 2020

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.