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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

September 13, 2022Polk County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this river flood warning at Sep 13, 2022, 9:41 AM EDT for Polk County, Florida. It took effect at Sep 14, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 39 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 13, 2022, 9:41 AM EDT (13:41 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 14, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired
Oct 23, 2022, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
39 days
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Polk County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:41 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 Peace River at SR 60 Bartow (BARF1). The gauge peaked at 10.80 ft at Oct 2, 2022, 7:00 AM EDT.

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Action stage
7.6 ft
Minor stage
8 ft
Moderate stage
9.2 ft
Major stage
10 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02294650, 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 12, 7:35 PM EDT, 14 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 7:35 PM EDT, 14 hours 6 minutes before
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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.