Heavy Rain in Suwannee County, Florida
Heavy Rain March 11, 2022 – March 12, 2022 · Suwannee County, Florida
Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.
What the National Weather Service wrote
Measured storm total rainfall over 24 hrs was 7.27 inches. Of this total, 3.21 inches occurred on March 11th. Since midnight on 3/12, 4.06 inches had fallen through 5:15 am. Other sites in the area measured about 7 inches of storm total rainfall. Reports of some street flooding along U.S. Highway 90 and County Road 136 in Live Oak were relayed by County 911/Dispatch.
The wider storm
A frontal boundary was draped across north Florida as a strong short wave trough passed overhead. A flood watch was in effect due to already saturated ground where 2-3 inches of rainfall occurred over the past 2 days, prior to the flooding rainfall that occurred with this event. Flooding occurred in Gainesville near UF. Other areas measured heavy rainfall, some 2 day totals were 7-10 inches in parts of the Suwannee River Valley. A public information statement was issued at 1000 am on Saturday 3/12 with 72 hr rainfall totals which ranged from near 5 inches to near 9 inches across Alachua County (highest measured was 8.82 inches 6 miles WNW of UF). Columbia county recorded the highest local rainfall amount for this event about 1 mile SSE of White Springs of 9.67 inches.
Began near Lancaster (30.1200, -83.2000).
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1007335. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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