# Flood alert: The Suffolk coast from Lowestoft to Bawdsey

**Event type:** Flood warning  
**Status in source feed:** current  
**Area:** The Suffolk coast from Lowestoft to Bawdsey  
**County:** Suffolk  
**River or sea:** North Sea  
**Warning raised:** 2026-11-12T14:21:40Z  
**Source update:** 2026-11-12T14:21:00Z  
**Dataset checked:** 2026-11-12T22:00:44Z  
**Official warning-area boundary:** 82.109 km²

## What this measures

The mapped outline is the Environment Agency's official flood-warning area. Its approximate area uses a spherical calculation and is not an estimate of flooded land, people affected, casualties, displacement or damage. The first release uses warning data only; it does not map observed inundation.

## Source message

> High tides this evening may lead to flooding.
> Flooding is possible from 9:45pm to 11:45pm on Thursday 12 November.
> We expect to see high water levels in Lake Lothing in Lowestoft as well as high sea levels along the Suffolk Coast, impacting on beach access points. The detailed forecast is for a peak level at Lowestoft of 1.82mAODN at 10:45pm, on Thursday 12 November, which is 0.82m above tide tables, Wind Force 6, northerly. No further high tides are expected over the coming days.
> We are closely monitoring the situation .
> Avoid coastal roads, footpaths and carparks, which may be flooded.
> This message will be updated by 10:00AM on Friday 13 November or as the situation changes.

## Source and reuse

This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta). Data are provided under the [Open Government Licence v3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/). [Open the source record](https://environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/id/floods/054WACDV3B). Boundaries are from [the Environment Agency API](https://environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/doc/reference).

Prepared by TechnicalGIS Environmental News Desk. Dataset revision 1.