Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Nov 25, 1992, 8:50 PM CST for Russell County, Alabama; Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 25, 1992, 8:50 PM CST (02:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 25, 1992, 10:45 PM CST
- In force
- 115 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 00:00Z, 2.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2367 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 KCSG 260250 FFWCSG ALC113-GAC215-260445- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 950 PM EST WED NOV 25 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...RUSSELL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MUSCOGEE COUNTY SEVERAL THUNDERSHOWERS CAME THROUGH THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF COLUMBUS DURING THE PAST HOUR AND DUMPED HEAVY RAIN. THIS RAIN ALONG WITH THE 3 INCHES OF RAIN THAT HAD ALREADY FALLEN TODAY WAS ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND GULEYS. MOTORISTS IN COLUMBUS AND PHENIX CITY ARE ADVISED TO STAY AT HOME UNLESS EMERGENCIES. PEOPLE IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS ARE ADVISED TO START MOVING OUT TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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, 3:33 PM CST, 5 hours 17 minutes before
FLZ003-252230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 435 PM EST (335 PM CST) WED NOV 25 1992 STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY. AT 330 PM CST WEATHER RADAR AND LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEMS INDICATED THAT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING NORTHEASTWARD OUT OF EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY INTO WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY FLORIDA. DURING THE PAST HOUR...RADAR ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL INDICATED THAT THIS STORM MAY HAVE PRODUCED AS MUCH AS ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN HOLMES COUNTY. PERSONS IN WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH THE AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PART OF A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT EXTENDS FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO SOUTH OF PANAMA CITY FLORIDA NORTHEASTWARD INTO EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA. THIS LINE IS MOVING ONLY VERY SLOWLY EASTWARD...WHILE INDIVIDUAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEASTWARD ALONG THE LINE AT AROUND 30 TO 40 MPH. AS A RESULT...SOME AREAS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE... ESPECIALLY BAY..EAxSTERN WASHINGTON...WESTERN CALHOUN AND JACKSON COUNTIES IN FLORIDA COULD EXPERIENCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 4:58 PM CST, 3 hours 52 minutes before
FLZ003-260000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 557 PM EST (457 PM CST) WED NOV 25 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY... AT 455 CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE TOWN OF ALTHA ON THE CALHOUN COUNTY/JACKSON COUNTY BORDER. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR LOCALLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS....VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS THAT REDUCE VISIBILITIES...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES...THE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND DUE TO THE PERSISTENT RAIN IN THE AREA POSSIBLE FLOODING OF THE LOWER LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS AS THIS THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES MOVING NORTHEAST DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION.
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.