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Plymouth Sound, Wembury Bay and tidal estuaries

Plymouth Sound including Cawsand, Kingsand, Millbrook, The Hoe, and the Tidal Lynher, Tamar, Tavy, Plym and Yealm estuaries

Flood warning area South Cornwall Coast Cornwall, Devon, Plymouth Devon and Cornwall In Plymouth Sound, Wembury Bay and tidal estuaries

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Nearby Monitoring Stations

Long Brook • Plympton • 2.5 km

Steady · normal

Tory Brook • Plympton • 4.6 km

Easing · normal — Easing — down from 0.44 at 12:45, now 0.42

River Plym • Bickleigh • 5.6 km

Steady · normal

Easing — Easing — down from 3.30 at 11:45, now 3.11

Tide • Devonport • 6.5 km

River Yealm • Yealmpton • 7.8 km

Steady · normal

Rising — Up 0.15 m since 17:15, still rising (0.05 m/h)

River Yealm • Cornwood • 10.5 km

Steady · normal

River Tavy • Buckland Monachorum • 12.9 km

Easing · normal — Easing — down from 0.52 at 11:00, now 0.50

River Erme • Ermington • 13.3 km

Steady · normal

Flood Event History (23)

2 Feb 2026 at 2:02pm Flood Warning

22 Jan 2026 at 3:16pm Flood Warning

5 Dec 2025 at 12:32pm Flood Warning

10 Mar 2024 at 12:19pm Flood Warning

11 Feb 2024 at 11:53am Flood Warning

9 Feb 2024 at 3:59pm Flood Warning

28 Oct 2023 at 6:15am Flood Warning

21 Mar 2023 at 6:37pm Flood Warning

15 Dec 2020 at 3:35pm Flood Warning

14 Nov 2020 at 8:03pm Flood Warning

20 Aug 2020 at 12:06pm Flood Warning

11 Mar 2020 at 12:54pm Flood Warning

10 Mar 2020 at 1:44pm Flood Warning

12 Feb 2020 at 3:46pm Flood Warning

26 Nov 2019 at 2:15pm Flood Warning

26 Nov 2019 at 11:45am Flood Warning

30 Sep 2019 at 11:19am Flood Warning

28 Sep 2019 at 3:32pm Flood Warning

3 Mar 2018 at 1:27pm Flood Warning

2 Mar 2018 at 4:13pm Flood Warning

10 Apr 2016 at 12:11pm Flood Warning

8 Apr 2016 at 5:50pm Flood Warning

11 Feb 2016 at 12:55pm Flood Warning

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Official sources for this area

This area on the Environment Agency’s flood service →
Floodline quick dial: 311008 — call 0345 988 1188 and give that code for a recorded update on this area.
Area code: 114FWT1T1FA00

Live warnings and area boundaries are the Environment Agency’s and the EA is the authority on them. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This area in the EA’s own data.