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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Jacksonville, FL

January 18, 2020Jeff Davis County, Montgomery County, Toombs County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this river flood warning at Jan 18, 2020, 9:12 AM EST for Jeff Davis County, Montgomery County, Toombs County, Georgia. It took effect at Jan 20, 2020, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 9 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 18, 2020, 9:12 AM EST (14:12 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 20, 2020, 7:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 29, 2020, 12:55 PM EST
In force: 9 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 14:16 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 Altamaha River near Charlotteville (CHRG1). The gauge peaked at 15.69 ft at Jan 25, 2020, 7:00 AM EST.

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 Jan 17, 3:54 PM EST, 17 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 3:54 PM EST, 17 hours 18 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
Jan 18, 4:02 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	JAX		11 hr

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.