Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 14, 2002, 2:15 PM EDT for Leon County, Wakulla County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 14, 2002, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2002, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Leon County, FL, Wakulla County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 8 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
- 1184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KTAE 141815 FFWTLH FLC073-129-141915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 210 PM EDT SAT SEP 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN LEON COUNTY IN FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES EASTERN TALLAHASSEE NORTHEASTERN WAKULLA COUNTY IN FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES...CRAWFORDVILLE...ST. MARKS * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 201 PM EDT(101 PM CDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EASTERN LEON AND EASTERN WAKULLA COUNTIES. INTENSE PRECIPITATION WILL MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR WITH PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS RANGING TWO TO THREE INCHES PER HOUR. EXPECT LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND DITCHES OVER THE NEXT HOUR IN AFFECTED AREAS COVERED BY THIS WARNING. * 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 SHOULD 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 3067 8409 3011 8408 3009 8449 3057 8435 .END 52-LANIER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 10:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla | 20 min |
| Sep 14, 10:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla | 12 min |
| Sep 14, 10:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla | 2 hr |
| Sep 14, 11:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Taylor, Wakulla | 50 min |
| Sep 14, 12:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jefferson | 57 min |
| Sep 14, 2:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison, Taylor | 50 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.