Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 14, 2002, 2:55 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Madison County, Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 50 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, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2002, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jefferson County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 45 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 141855 FFWTLH FLC065-079-123-141945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 243 PM EDT SAT SEP 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA WEST CENTRAL MADISON COUNTY IN FLORIDA NORTHWESTERN TAYLOR COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 237 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY. INTENSE PRECIPITATION WILL MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR INTO WESTERN MADISON COUNTY AND NORTHWESTERN TAYLOR COUNTY. PRECIPITATION WILL RANGE TWO TO THREE INCHES PER HOUR OVER THE NEXT HOUR IN THESE AREAS. EXPECT LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND DITCHES 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 3054 8365 3001 8379 3014 8406 3046 8403 .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, 2:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 60 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.