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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 7, 20254 counties in Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this river flood warning at Apr 7, 2025, 2:05 PM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Apr 8, 2025, 7:55 AM CDT. It was in force for 20 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 7, 2025, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 8, 2025, 7:55 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 28, 2025, 2:05 PM CDT
In force: 20 days
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Liberty County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Apalachicola River near Blountstown (BLOF1).

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 17 ft
Moderate stage: 23.5 ft
Major stage: 26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02358700, 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 7, 2:00 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 2:00 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 7, 12:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 7, 1:26 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 7, 1:35 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 7, 1:41 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 7, 2:05 PM CDT, 0 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 7, 4:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes	2 hr
Apr 7, 5:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Washington	2 hr
Apr 7, 6:29 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		91 min
Apr 7, 6:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson	16 min
Apr 7, 7:07 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Jackson, Washington	113 min
Apr 7, 7:58 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		92 min
Apr 7, 8:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	66 min
Apr 7, 8:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	60 min
Apr 7, 8:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Liberty	118 min
Apr 7, 8:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Liberty	42 min
Apr 7, 9:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Liberty	54 min
Apr 7, 9:14 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Apr 7, 9:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Gulf, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	47 min
Apr 7, 9:36 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty	114 min
Apr 7, 9:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Liberty, Wakulla	25 min
Apr 7, 9:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin	65 min
Apr 7, 10:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	50 min
Apr 7, 10:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin	66 min
Apr 7, 10:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Leon	30 min
Apr 7, 10:51 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	14 min
Apr 7, 11:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Wakulla	60 min
Apr 7, 11:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	43 min
Apr 7, 11:05 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		55 min
Apr 7, 11:15 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Leon	30 min
Apr 7, 12:00 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Apr 7, 12:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	43 min
Apr 7, 12:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	46 min
Apr 7, 1:23 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		97 min
Apr 7, 2:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	33 min
Apr 7, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		46 min
Apr 7, 5:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early	32 min
Apr 7, 6:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Clay, Randolph	9 min
Apr 7, 6:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Early, Miller	37 min
Apr 7, 7:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Miller	25 min
Apr 7, 7:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker	27 min
Apr 7, 7:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker	50 min
Apr 7, 8:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Decatur, Mitchell	35 min
Apr 7, 8:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Seminole	47 min
Apr 7, 8:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth	34 min
Apr 7, 9:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur	41 min
Apr 7, 9:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	39 min
Apr 7, 9:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Irwin, Tift, Worth	45 min
Apr 7, 9:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Grady, Thomas	46 min
Apr 7, 10:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell, Thomas	29 min
Apr 7, 10:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift, Turner	50 min
Apr 7, 10:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Tift, Worth	14 min
Apr 7, 11:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Grady, Thomas	30 min
Apr 6, 9:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Coffee	3 hr
Apr 7, 2:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale, Geneva	51 min
Apr 7, 3:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale, Geneva, Henry	49 min
Apr 7, 3:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	119 min
Apr 7, 4:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Houston	2 hr

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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.