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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL

November 25, 1992Russell County, Alabama; Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Nov 25, 1992, 6:49 AM CST for Russell County, Alabama; Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 116 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 25, 1992, 6:49 AM CST (12:49 UTC)
Expired
Nov 25, 1992, 8:45 AM CST
In force
116 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Russell County, AL, Muscogee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1992-11-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1992-11-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -74 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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, Nov 25, 1:08 AM CST, 5 hours 41 minutes before
FLZ004-251300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL
210 AM EST WED NOV 25 1992

FOG HAS FORMED OVER PARTS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. SOME AREAS MAY
HAVE NEAR ZERO V ISIBILITY.

DRIVERS AND BOATERS SHOULD USE EXTRA CARE...SLOW DOWN AND USE LOW
BEAMS ON YOUR HEAD LIGHTS.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 1:22 AM CST, 5 hours 27 minutes before
FLZ003-GAZ011-251030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
222 AM EST (122 AM CST) WED NOV 25 1992

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 932 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CST FOR THE NORTH
FLORIDA COUNTY OF JACKSON AND THE SOUTHWEST GEORGIA COUNTY OF
SEMINOLE...

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 932 REPLACES WATCH NUMBER 931 AND WILL NO LONGER
BE IN EFFECT AFTER 130 AM CST...

AT 115 AM CST (215 AM EST) NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MONTGOMERY ALABAMA TO MOBILE. OTHER
SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE FROM NORTH OF CRESTVIEW TO PENSACOLA FLORIDA.
MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR pADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AS CONDITIONS
WARRANT.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 4:47 AM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
FLZ003-GAZ011-251245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
546 AM EST (446 AM CST) WED NOV 25 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM EST (800 AM CST) FOR THE
NORTH FLORIDA COUNTY OF JACKSON AND THE SOUTHWEST GEORGIA COUNTY OF
SEMINOLE...

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTH FLORIDA COUNTIES OF
JACKSON...CALHOUN AND FRANKLIN...

AT 540 AM EST (440 AM CST) NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM BETWEEN MONTGOMERY
ALABAMA AND COLUMBUS GEORGIA TO PENSACOLA FLORIDA AND OVER THE GULF
WATERS. MOVEMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 TO
40 MPH WHILE THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO DURING THE DAY FOR ADDITIONAL
STATEMENTS CONCERNING THESE STORMS.

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.