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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 7, 2005Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Apr 7, 2005, 4:28 AM CDT for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 4 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: Apr 7, 2005, 4:28 AM CDT (09:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 2005, 8:30 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Gulf County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS52 KTAE 070930
FFWTAE
FLC045-071330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
428 AM CDT THU APR 7 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GULF COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA

* UNTIL 830 AM CDT (930 AM EDT)

* AT 527 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  HEAVY RAIN FROM A LINE OF SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE 
WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WHITE
  CITY...HOWARD CREEK...DALKEITH...HONEYVILLE...WETAPPO AND
  WEWAHITCHKA.

* A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR
  OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER
  GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS
  SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.
  DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF
  UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE.

* 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 2977 8538 2987 8539 2969 8534 2971 8529
      2983 8529 2992 8537 3020 8537 3019 8514
      3005 8514 2998 8504 2980 8504 2977 8514
      2969 8522 2969 8535

$$

23-MCNATT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 7:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton	266 days
Apr 6, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	33 min
Apr 6, 8:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington	2 hr
Apr 6, 10:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	119 min
Apr 6, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	49 min
Apr 6, 11:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	116 min
Apr 7, 2:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Bay	119 min
Apr 7, 7:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin	31 min
Apr 7, 10:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lafayette, Taylor	45 min
Apr 7, 12:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dixie	265 days

Nearby

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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.