Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 16, 1990, 3:55 PM CST for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 1990, 3:55 PM CST (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1990, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1083 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 323 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPNS 170003 COR FFWPNS FLC033-113-170300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 600 PM CST FRI MAR 16 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENSACOLA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...ALL OF SANTA ROSA COUNTY...ALL OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY...THE NORTH 1/2 OF OKALOOSA COUNTY. HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES OVER SANTA ROSA AND OKALOOSA COUNTIES FLORIDA. THE RAIN HAS DECREASED OVER ESCAMBIA COUNTY...BUT FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO BE A PROBLEM FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. IN ESCAMBIA COUNTY...NUMEROUS ROADS ARE WASHED OUT AND IMPASSABLE FROM NINE MILE ROAD NORTH TO THE ALABAMA LINE. ESCAMBIA COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REQUEST THAT THE GENERAL PUBLIC RESTRICT TRAVEL IN THE AFFECTED AREAS UNTIL FLOOD WATERS SUBSIDE. IN SANTA ROSA COUNTY...ALL ROADS ARE CLOSED FROM MILTON NORTHWARD TO THE ALABAMA LINE. SOME FLOODING IS ALSO OCCURRING IN THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES THE NEXT 3 HOURS. IN OKALOOSA COUNTY...SOME FLOODING OF SECONDARY ROADS AND RISING WATERS IN CREEKS AND ROAD DITCHES IS OCURRRING AT THIS TIME. SOME DIRT ROADS IN THE NORTHWEST PARTS OF THE COUNTY HAVE BEEN CLOSED. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. 'NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE.
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, Mar 16, 2:57 PM CST, 58 minutes before
FLZ003-005-GAZ011-012-162300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 356 PM EST (256 PM CST) FRI MAR 16 1990 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH FLORIDA AND FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. AT THIS TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS FROM DOTHAN AL TO CRESTVIEW FL. THIS WILL BE THE LAST SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT UNTIL RADAR OR SURFACE REPORTS INDICATE ANY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 8:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 59 min |
| Mar 16, 9:51 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 38 min |
| Mar 16, 12:04 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 116 min |
| Mar 16, 1:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 61 min |
| Mar 16, 3:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Okaloosa | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 28 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.