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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

July 15, 2025Hillsborough County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this river flood warning at Jul 15, 2025, 10:14 AM EDT for Hillsborough County, Florida. It took effect at Jul 16, 2025, 7:44 AM EDT. It was in force for 57 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 2025, 10:14 AM EDT (14:14 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 16, 2025, 7:44 AM EDT
Expired
Jul 18, 2025, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
57 hr
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Hillsborough County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:15 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 Alafia River at Lithia Pinecrest Road at Lithia (LITF1).

Action stage
11 ft
Minor stage
13 ft
Moderate stage
16 ft
Major stage
19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02301500, 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 Jul 15, 7:09 AM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 7:09 AM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 8:24 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW96 min
Jul 15, 10:00 AM EDTFlood WatchTBWCitrus, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough, Levy, Manatee and 4 more9 hr
Jul 15, 10:14 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningTBWHillsborough60 hr
Jul 15, 2:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW26 min
Jul 15, 4:48 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW42 min

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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.