Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Oct 12, 1986, 6:15 PM CDT for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 12, 1986, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 1986, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Okaloosa County, FL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Florida, 1986Every flash flood warning in 1986
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.