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River Flood Warning 9, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

September 9, 2020Sarasota County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this river flood warning at Sep 9, 2020, 9:59 AM EDT for Sarasota County, Florida. It took effect at Sep 10, 2020, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 20 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 9, 2020, 9:59 AM EDT (13:59 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 10, 2020, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired: Sep 30, 2020, 9:59 AM EDT
In force: 20 days
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Sarasota County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:58 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 Myakka River at Myakka River State Park (MKCF1). The gauge peaked at 7.69 ft at Sep 15, 2020, 5:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 6.5 ft
Minor stage: 7 ft
Moderate stage: 8.5 ft
Major stage: 10.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02298830, 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Sep 9, 9:00 AM EDT, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 9:00 AM EDT, 59 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 9, 4:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TBW	Hillsborough	58 min
Sep 9, 6:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TBW	Hernando, Pasco	2 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Florida, 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.