Local brief
Flash Flood Warning for Parts of Bay and Walton Counties Until 10:45 a.m. CDT
The National Weather Service in Tallahassee issued a Flash Flood Warning at 8:38 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026, for west-central Bay County and southwestern Walton County, Florida. It runs until 11:45 a.m. EDT, which
This brief is the Walton County copy. The warned area in Walton County is the southwestern part of the county. The same warning also covers west-central Bay County.
Heavy thunderstorm rain has fallen on parts of Bay County and Walton County in the Florida panhandle. The National Weather Service says flash flooding is happening or is about to start. Small creeks, streets, and underpasses can flood fast. Stay off flooded roads. Turn around, don’t drown.
The National Weather Service office in Tallahassee issued this Flash Flood Warning at 8:38 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026. That is 7:38 a.m. CDT. The headline clock ends at 11:45 a.m. EDT. The warning text says until 10:45 a.m. CDT. Those are the same moment. If this page and weather.gov disagree, weather.gov wins.
This warning covers west-central Bay County and southwestern Walton County. It is not the Flood Watch, and it is not the separate Okaloosa County flash flood warning from the Mobile office. Read this clock on its own.
The full plain-language brief, with the official clocks and the source links, is the Notice Nearby public paper: https://noticenearby.com/papers/flash-flood-warning-bay-walton-counties-fl-oct-2026.
Official source: National Weather Service Tallahassee flash flood warning FFWTAE. https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.6787dc2e3b297e2eaa082b7a8850185b21660e3a.001.1
County hub: https://noticenearby.com/fl/walton. This is not the fire department, the sheriff, or the National Weather Service. If an official page and this note disagree, the official page wins.
Source: the public notice on this register NN-ENV-fl-walton-flash-flood-warning-2026-10-04 · National Weather Service Tallahassee flash flood warning FFWTAE.
This is a Notice Nearby local brief — an in-house explainer written from a government-posted notice on this register. It is not official minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication.