Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 1989, 11:11 AM CDT for Holmes County, Florida. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1989, 11:11 AM CDT (16:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1989, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holmes 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 2713 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPNS 091613
FFWPNS
FLC059-091915-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
1111 AM CDT FRI JUN 9 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENSACOLA HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
...HOLMES
HOLMES COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTS THAT MOST SECONDARY ROADS
IN THE COUNTY ARE IMPASSABLE IN PLACES DUE TO HIGH WATER. THE RAINS
HAVE MOVED WELL EAST OF THE COUNTY BUT IT WILL TAKE SEVERAL HOURS FOR
THE ACCUMLATED WATER TO DRAIN FROM THE ROADS. EM ALSO REPORTS THAT
MOST COUNTY BRIDGES THAT CROSS SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE ALSO
IMPASSABLE.
THE MAJOR ROADS THROUGH THE COUNTY HAVE WATER IN THEM IN SPOTS BUT ALL
ARE OPEN.
ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS MORE INFORMATION BECOMES
AVAILABLE.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO1 GREAT TO 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, Jun 9, 7:40 AM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 840 AM EDT FRI JUN 9 1989 TORNADO WATCH 444 IS IN EFFECT FOR GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 100 PM EDT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS MORNING HOURS. AT 830 AM EDT...A LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS.. SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXRENDED FROM SOUTH OF VALDOSTA TO EAST OF PANAMA CITY AND EXTENDED ON OUT INTO THE GULF TO 110 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PENSACOLA. MOVEMENT OF THIS LINE WAS VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST. ELSEWHERE..A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH SHOWERS WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTH GEORGIA..NORTH FLORIDA ALONG WITH THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. OVER THE GULF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM EAST OF FORT WALTON TO APALACHICOLA AND EXTENDED OUT INTO THE GULF BEYOND 125 MILES SOUTHWEST OF APALACHICOLA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVGING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:09 AM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 910 AM EDT FRI JUN 9 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 444 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EDT... AT 900 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MONTICELLO TO TALLAHASSEE AND EXTENDED SOUTHWEST THROUGH APALACHICOLA AND OUT INTO THE GULF 75 MILES. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE LINE WERE LOCATED NORTH OF APALACHICOLA MOVING INTO THE TOWN OF SUMATRA IN SOUTHERN LIBERTY COUNTY. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH WHILE MOST OF THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDESRTORM CELLS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STdRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:44 AM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 944 AM EDT FRI JUN 9 1989 TORNADO WATCH 444 IS IN EFFECT FOR GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 100 PM EDT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS MORNING HOURS. AT 928 AM EDT...A LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS.. SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXRENDED FROM SOUTH OF VALDOSTA TO EAST NEAR PORT ST JOE AND EXTENDED ON OUT INTO THE GULF TO 110 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PENSACOLA. MOVEMENT OF THIS LINE WAS VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST. ELSEWHERE..A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH SHOWERS WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTH GEORGIA..NORTH FLORIDA ALONG WITH THE FLO7RIDA PANHANDLE. OVER THE GULF.. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM PANAMA CITY TO APALACHICOLA AND EXTENDED OUT 140 MILES. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVGING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 9:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 1044 AM EDT FRI JUN 9 1989 TORNADO WATCH 444 IS IN EFFECT FOR GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 100 PM EDT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS MORNING HOURS. AT 1025 AM EDT...A LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS.. SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM WEST OF VALDOSTA TO ST. MARKS...TO CAPE SAN BLAS...AND EXTENDED ON OUT INTO THE GULF TO 100 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WALTON BEACH. MOVEMENT OF THIS LINE WAS VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST. ELSEWHERE..A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH SHOWERS WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTH GEORGIA..NORTH FLORIDA ALONG WITH THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. OVER THE GULF..ISOLATED SHOWERS... THUNDERSTORMS AND PATCHES OF RAIN WERE IN A 50 MILE WIDE BAND EXTENDING 125 MILES SOUTHWEST OF APALACHICOLA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 10:22 AM CDT, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1115 AM EDT FRI JUN 9 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 444 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EDT... AT 1110 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM THE TOWN OF GREENVILLE IN MADISON COUNTY FLORIDA AND EXTENDED SOUTHWEST ALONG THE COASTAL WATERS OF WAKULLA AND FRANKLIN COUNTY. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THAT THE SEVERE WEATHER THAT MOVED THROUGH NORTHEASTERN LEON...NORTHERN JEFFERSON AND THOMAS COUNTY HAS MOVED INTO NORTHERN CAMDEN AND GLYNN COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 10:50 AM CDT, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 1150 AM EDT FRI JUN 9 1989 TORNADO WATCH 444 IS IN EFFECT FOR GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 100 PM EDT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM EDT... AT 1131 AM EDT...A LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS.. SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM VALDOSTA TO ST. MARKS...AND EXTENDED OFFSHORE OF APALACHICOLA 65 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST. MOVEMENT OF THIS LINE WAS VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST. OVER THE GULF..ISOLATED SHOWERS... THUNDERSTORMS AND PATCHES OF RAIN WERE 50 MILES SOUTH AND 100 TO 125 MILES SOUTHWEST OF APALACHICOLA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 8:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Okaloosa | 57 min |
| Jun 9, 8:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 9:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 54 min |
| Jun 9, 2:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Florida, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989
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.