Heavy Rain — Columbia, Florida

2024-08-26 · near Watertown, Columbia, Florida

Event narrative

A private weather station along SE Romeo

Lane measured 3.62 inches of daily rainfall

as of 9:05 pm. Most of the rain fell after

6:30 through 9 pm.

Wider weather episode

A meandering front, very high moisture and diurnal heating combined with sea breezes triggered locally heavy rainfall across inland areas. Very weak storm motion produced slow moving, heavy rainfall producing storms.

View location on OpenStreetMap → (30.1500, -82.5900)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1203899. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.