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River Flood Warning 14, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 8, 2020Decatur County, Miller County, Seminole County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this river flood warning at Feb 8, 2020, 3:40 PM EST for Decatur County, Miller County, Seminole County, Georgia. It took effect at Feb 9, 2020, 12:15 AM EST. It was in force for 65 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 8, 2020, 3:40 PM EST (20:40 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 9, 2020, 12:15 AM EST
Expired: Feb 11, 2020, 5:38 PM EST
In force: 65 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Decatur County, GA, Miller County, GA, Seminole County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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 Spring Creek near Iron City (CR 16) (IRCG1). The gauge peaked at 17.63 ft at Feb 10, 2020, 3:00 AM EST.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 22 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02357000, 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 Feb 8, 2:57 PM EST, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 8, 2:57 PM EST, 43 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
Feb 8, 11:47 AM EST	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Gulf, Walton	12 hr
Feb 8, 2:09 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Lee	25 hr
Feb 8, 3:36 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Decatur	3 days

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.