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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 22, 2005Colquitt County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 22, 2005, 4:32 PM EST for Colquitt County, Georgia. It was in force for 58 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: Mar 22, 2005, 4:32 PM EST (21:32 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2005, 5:30 PM EST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Colquitt County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 714 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 265 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 7.3

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The text

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

000
WGUS52 KTAE 222135
FFWTAE
GAC071-222230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
432 PM EST TUE MAR 22 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR A DAM FAILURE IN...
  CENTRAL COLQUITT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MOULTRIE

* UNTIL 530 PM EST

* AT 432 PM EST...A LOCAL DAM 3 MILES EAST OF MOULTRIE NEAR SR 37 
FAILED CAUSING FLASH FLOODING ACROSS SR 37.

* AFFECTED LOCATIONS SR37 3 MILES EAST OF MOULTRIE

SR 37 HAS BEEN REPORTED BY LOCAL SPOTTER AND SHERIFFS OFFICE COVERED 
WITH WATER FROM THIS LOCAL DAM. AREAS DOWNSTREAM FROM THE DAM SHOULD 
BE PREPARED FOR FLOODING. TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS IMMEDIATELY.

PEOPLE BELOW THE DAM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION BY MONITORING LOCAL
RADIO OR TELEVISION AND FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ANY REQUIRED
EVACUATION AS OUTLINED BY LOCAL EMERGENCY OFFICIALS.

LAT...LON 3121 8370 3115 8369 3114 8380 3121 8379

$$

52-LANIER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 8:16 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	258 days
Mar 22, 8:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Mitchell	258 days
Mar 22, 9:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay	268 days
Mar 22, 9:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur	278 days
Mar 22, 10:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early, Seminole	281 days
Mar 22, 12:18 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth	160 days
Mar 22, 12:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Miller	281 days
Mar 22, 12:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Cook, Tift, Turner, Worth	281 days
Mar 22, 1:07 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Tift, Worth	258 days
Mar 22, 1:12 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early	258 days
Mar 22, 1:25 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Berrien, Lanier, Lowndes, Tift	258 days
Mar 22, 1:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Miller, Seminole	268 days
Mar 22, 1:59 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Miller, Mitchell	268 days
Mar 22, 2:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Irwin	29 min
Mar 22, 2:39 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell	277 days
Mar 22, 2:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Miller, Seminole	33 min
Mar 22, 2:52 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		83 min
Mar 22, 3:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Miller, Mitchell	36 min
Mar 22, 3:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Worth	46 min
Mar 22, 3:24 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Quitman	281 days
Mar 22, 3:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Tift	281 days
Mar 22, 3:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	33 min
Mar 22, 4:01 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		119 min
Mar 22, 4:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Cook	25 min
Mar 22, 4:13 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Berrien, Clay, Quitman	281 days
Mar 22, 5:34 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		116 min
Mar 22, 5:58 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		32 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.