Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Jan 30, 1991, 12:17 PM EST for Dougherty County, Worth County, Georgia. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 30, 1991, 12:17 PM EST (17:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 30, 1991, 1:15 PM EST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dougherty County, GA, Worth County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 541 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jan 30, 6:20 AM EST, 5 hours 57 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jan 30, 7:18 AM EST, 4 hours 59 minutes before
FLZ003-GAZ011-012-301400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 720 AM EST (620 AM CST) WED JAN 30 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FLORIDA COUNTIES OF JACKSON AND CALHOUN... ...A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWEST GEORGIA COUNTIES OF SEMINOLE...DECATUR...GRADY...THOMAS AND BROOKS. IN FLORIDA A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT WEST OF THE THE APALACHICOLA RIVER INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF JACKSON AND CALHOUN... AT 700 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS EXTENDING FROM NEAR DONALSONVILLE GEORGIA TO PANAMA CITY FLORIDA AND OVER THE GULF WATERS FOR ABOUT 30 MILES. MOVEMENT OF THIS RAIN WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY WILL MOVE EASTWARD TODAY BRINGING THE LIKELYHOOD OF ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL AND THE POSSIBILITY FOR SEVERE WEATHER. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CST FOR JACKSON AND CALHOUN COUNTIES. YESTERDAY RAINFALL TOTALS WERE BETWEEN 2 TO 3 INCHES IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AND ADDITIONAL RAINS TODAY COULD LIKELY RESULT IN SOME FLOODING. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO DRIVE WITH CAUTION AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS A ROADWAY THAT IS COVERED WITH WATER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GJM
Special weather statement, Jan 30, 8:59 AM EST, 3 hours 18 minutes before
FLZ003-005-GAZ011-012-301600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 856 AM EST (756 AM CST) WED JAN 30 1991 ..A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FLORIDA COUNTIES OF JACKSON AND CALHOUN. ...A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWEST GEORGIA COUNTIES OF SEMINOLE...DECATUR...GRADY...THOMAS AND BROOKS. IN FLORIDA A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT WEST OF THE APALACHICOLA RIVER INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF JACKSON AND CALHOUN... AT 845 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS OVER THE BIG BEND AREA OF FLORIDA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. IN THE WESTERN PANHANDLE WEST OF CRESTVIEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS WERE BEING DETECTED. MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30. A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY WILL MOVE EASTWARD TODAY BRINGING THE LIKELYHOOD OF ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JCB
Special weather statement, Jan 30, 11:34 AM EST, 43 minutes before
FLZ003-005-GAZ011-012-301900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1130 AM EST (1015 AM CST) WED JAN 30 1991 ...A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWEST GEORGIA COUNTIES OF SEMINOLE...DECATUR...GRADY...THOMAS AND BROOKS. IN FLORIDA A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT WEST OF THE APALACHICOLA RIVER INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF JACKSON AND CALHOUN... AT 1125 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS FROM 25 MILES WEST OF ALBANY GA TO DOTHAN AL TO FORT WALTON BEACH AND 30 MILES OFFSHORE. THESE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS NOTED BETWEEN DE FUNIAK SPRINGS AND JUST SOUTH OF DOTHAN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY WILL MOVE EASTWARD TODAY BRINGING THE LIKELYHOOD OF ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ADB...30/1635Z
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 12:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Tift | 44 min |
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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.