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River Flood Warning 9, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 6, 2020Pierce County, Ware County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this river flood warning at Mar 6, 2020, 11:04 AM EST for Pierce County, Ware County, Georgia. It took effect at Mar 8, 2020, 4:30 AM EDT. It was in force for 19 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 6, 2020, 11:04 AM EST (16:04 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 8, 2020, 4:30 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 27, 2020, 12:04 PM EDT
In force: 19 days
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Pierce County, GA, Ware County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:10 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 Satilla River near Waycross (AYSG1).

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02226500, 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 Mar 5, 2:15 PM EST, 20 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 2:15 PM EST, 20 hours 49 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
Mar 6, 2:27 AM EST	Gale Warning	JAX		29 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.