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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 1, 2004Gadsden County, Jefferson County, Leon County, Florida; Thomas County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2004, 2:13 PM EDT for Gadsden County, Jefferson County, Leon County, Florida; Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2004, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2004, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Gadsden County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Thomas County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 1404 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 663 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -0.7

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The text

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

000 
WGUS52 KTAE 011814
FFWTLH
FLC039-065-073-GAC275-012015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
213 PM EDT TUE JUN 1 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN GADSDEN COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES MONTICELLO
  LEON COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES TALLAHASSEE
  SOUTHERN THOMAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 212 PM EDT(112 PM CDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER 
RADAR   INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE BIG BEND AND SOUTWESTERN 
GEORGIA.

* EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE RAPID 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 THROUGH FLOWING WATER. NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD
  FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED.

LAT...LON 3075 8375 3063 8375 3063 8364 3051 8376
          3038 8389 3033 8465 3071 8467 3066 8406
          3078 8406

$$

52-LANIER/DUGGAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 1:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson	33 min
Jun 1, 2:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Leon	28 min
Jun 1, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	32 min
Jun 1, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	26 min
Jun 1, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	30 min
Jun 1, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		49 min
Jun 1, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		39 min
Jun 1, 12:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Miller	42 min
Jun 1, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	34 min
Jun 1, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	30 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Florida, 2004 Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2004 Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.