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River Flood Warning 44, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 22, 2020Jackson County, Florida; Early County, Seminole County, Georgia; Houston County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this river flood warning at Apr 22, 2020, 5:42 AM CDT for Jackson County, Florida; Early County, Seminole County, Georgia; Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 22, 2020, 5:42 AM CDT (10:42 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2020, 8:31 AM CDT
In force: 51 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Houston County, AL, Jackson County, FL, Early County, GA, Seminole County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:45 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 Chattahoochee River at George W. Andrews Lock and Dam (USACE) (COLA1).

Action stage: 92 ft
Minor stage: 106 ft
Moderate stage: 112 ft
Major stage: 124 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02343801, 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 Apr 22, 5:31 AM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 5:31 AM CDT, 11 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
Apr 22, 5:04 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		32 hr
Apr 22, 5:06 PM CDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton	32 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2020 River Flood Warnings in Florida, 2020 River Flood Warnings in Alabama, 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.