Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 1988
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 1988, 8:59 PM CDT for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 1988, 8:59 PM CDT (01:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1988, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bay 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 625 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 855 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPNS 160201 RRA
FFWPNS
FLC005-160500-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
859 PM CDT MON AUG 15 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENSACOLA HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
...BAY
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES OVER THE GULF
ADJACENT TO WALTON AND BAY COUNTIES FLORIDA. THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO
MOVE INLAND OVER BAY AND WALTON COUNTIES. THIS CONDITION IS EXPECTED
TO REMAIN THE SAME WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING FOR THE NEXT
SEVERAL HOURS.
BAY COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTS NO ROADS CLOSED AT THIS TIME. SOME
LOW WATER CROSSING ARE BLOCKED. LAKES AND STREAMS ARE RISING. REPORTS
OF NUMEROUS CARS FLOODED OUT AND MANY ACCIDENTS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT MTO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 7:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 850 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 1988 ..A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES OF NORTH FLORIDA FOR THIS EVENING.. AT 825 PM EDT...SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED FROM NORTHERN BAY COUNTY AND EXTENDED OUT INTO THE GULF TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WALTON. GULF COUNTY SHERRIFF`S OFFICE HAS REPORTED MINOR FLOODING ON HIGHWAY 98 IN WESTERN GULF COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA..SOUTH GEORGIA..NORTH FLORIDA AND THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. OVER THE GULF..THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM OFFSHORE OF PENSACOLA TO CEDAR KEY AND EXTENDED OUT 60 MILES. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSORMS OVER NORTH FLORIDA WAS TO THE NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PANHANDLE WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 8:03 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY..CORRECTION.. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 850 PM EDT MON AUG 15 1988 ..A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES OF NORTH FLORIDA FOR THIS EVENING.. AT 825 PM EDT...SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED FROM NORTHERN BAY COUNTY AND EXTENDED OUT INTO THE GULF TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WALTON. GULF COUNTY SHERRIFF`S OFFICE HAS REPORTED MINOR FLOODING ON HIGHWAY 98 IN WESTERN GULF COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA..SOUTH GEORGIA..NORTH FLORIDA AND THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. OVER THE GULF..THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM OFFSHORE OF PENSACOLA TO CEDAR KEY AND EXTENDED OUT 60 MILES. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSORMS OVER NORTH FLORIDA WAS TO THE NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PANHANDLE WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 7:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Bay | 118 min |
| Aug 16, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 63 min |
Nearby
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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.