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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 30, 2000Ben Hill County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 30, 2000, 9:45 AM EST for Ben Hill County, Georgia. It was in force for 105 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2000, 9:45 AM EST (14:45 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2000, 11:30 AM EST
In force: 105 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ben Hill County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 187 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1322 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 321 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.1
Supercell composite: 8.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS52 KTAE 301446
FFWTAE
GAC017-301645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
945 AM EST THU MAR 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BEN HILL COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES FITZGERALD

* UNTIL 1130 AM EST

* AT 945 AM EST(835 AM CST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN
WILL MOVE OVER BEN HILL COUNTY OVER THE NEXT 2 HOURS. SOME ROAD AND
STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN FITZGERALD FROM THE HEAVY RAINS
OVERNIGHT. THE FLOODING OF SOME ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE
POSSIBLE THROUGH THE MORNING.

* DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS OVERNIGHT...ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL CAUSE
  SOME FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND
  UNDERPASSES.  ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE
  BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE
  SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

* DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE
  ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
  CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SeHOULD BE ABANDONED
  QUICKLY. IT ONLY TAKES A FOOT OR TWO OF FLOWING WATER TO SWEEP MOST
  CARS AWAY. REMEMBER...MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.

LAT...LON 3178 8302 3170 8301 3170 8329 3177 8329

TREXLER
NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 11:55 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Ben Hill	3 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.