Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 2001, 2:05 AM EDT for Leon County, Florida. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2001, 2:05 AM EDT (06:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2001, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Leon County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:08 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 483 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS72 KTAE 120618 FFWTLH FLC073-121200- FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 205 AM EDT TUE JUN 12 2001 A FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LEON COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF TALLAHASSEE...UNTIL 8 AM EDT. MANY ROADS WILL CONTINUE TO BE IMPASSABLE THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. SOME OF THE MORE SEVERELY FLOODED ROADS IN THE TALLAHASSEE AREA INCLUDE: JACKSON BLUFF...LAKE BRADFORD...BLAIR STONE...BLOUNTSTOWN... ORANGE... TENNESSEE...OCALA...VIRGINIA... THERE ARE LIKELY MANY OTHER ROADS SEVERELY FLOODED. SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OF HOUSES AND BUSINESS HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED. THIS IS THE WORST FLOODING EVENT IN TALLAHASSEE IN SEVERAL YEARS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL SLOWLY DIMINISH DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AS THE LAST SIGNIFICANT RAIN AREA MOVES EAST. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE LIKELY UNTIL THEN. AVOID DRIVING TONIGHT IF POSSIBLE. THIS SERIOUS FLOODING SITUATION IS EVEN MORE DANGEROUS AT NIGHT WHEN FLOODED ROADS CAN NOT BE EASILY SEEN. $$ FOURNIER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 8:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 8:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 26 min |
| Jun 11, 8:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 34 min |
| Jun 11, 9:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 9:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 10:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 10:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Leon | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 10:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Leon | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 10:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Leon | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 11:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 29 min |
| Jun 12, 1:35 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.