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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood watch at Feb 11, 2013, 5:16 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida; 16 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Feb 11, 2013, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 47 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 2013, 5:16 AM CST (11:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 11, 2013, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2013, 5:14 AM CST
- In force
- 47 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Flood severity
- None
All 25 counties
Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lee County, GA, Miller County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Feb 11, 3:51 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 3:51 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Feb 11, 12:23 AM CST, 4 hours 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
123 AM EST MON FEB 11 2013
ALZ068-069-110700-
GENEVA AL-HOUSTON AL-
1223 AM CST MON FEB 11 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR GENEVA AND HOUSTON
COUNTIES...
* UNTIL 100 AM CST
AT 1218 AM CST...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTH OF HARTFORD
TO HARTFORD TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HARTFORD...OR ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM HIGH BLUFF TO HARTFORD TO KELLYS CROSSROADS...MOVING
EAST AT 45 MPH.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
TAYLOR BY 1235 AM CST.
DOTHAN BY 1240 AM CST.
WEBB BY 1250 AM CST.
ASHFORD BY 1255 AM CST.
WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
THIS STORM IS ALSO PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY REDUCE
VISIBILITY AND CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
LAT...LON 3103 8578 3109 8572 3120 8572 3129 8513
3121 8510 3117 8510 3116 8508 3101 8506
TIME...MOT...LOC 0622Z 262DEG 40KT 3120 8566 3110 8566
3105 8570
18-WOOLLocal storm report, Feb 11, 3:58 AM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
458 AM EST MON FEB 11 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0113 AM TSTM WND DMG GENEVA 31.04N 85.88W
02/11/2013 GENEVA AL 911 CALL CENTER
TREES REPORTED DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY. TIME ESTIMATED BY
RADAR.
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BLOCKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 6:50 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 40 days |
| Feb 11, 11:46 AM CST | River Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 9 days |
| Feb 11, 11:48 AM CST | River Flood Warning | TAE | Walton | 11 days |
| Feb 11, 12:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 40 min |
| Feb 11, 5:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf | 43 min |
| Feb 10, 8:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Early | 38 min |
| Feb 10, 9:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early | 27 min |
| Feb 10, 9:30 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Baker, Calhoun | 30 min |
| Feb 11, 1:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early, Seminole | 28 min |
| Feb 11, 9:52 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early, Miller, Seminole | 3 hr |
| Feb 11, 10:52 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth | 3 hr |
| Feb 11, 10:56 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Clay, Lee, Randolph, Terrell | 3 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Early, Miller | 113 min |
| Feb 11, 12:00 PM CST | River Flood Warning | TAE | Lee | 69 hr |
| Feb 11, 12:39 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Baker, Dougherty | 111 min |
| Feb 11, 1:36 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Decatur, Miller, Seminole | 114 min |
| Feb 10, 7:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 23 min |
| Feb 10, 7:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 32 min |
| Feb 10, 8:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Henry, Houston | 51 min |
| Feb 10, 9:19 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston | 3 hr |
| Feb 10, 9:46 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | TAE | Dale, Houston | 3 hr |
| Feb 11, 12:23 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Houston | 37 min |
| Feb 11, 12:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 31 min |
| Feb 11, 1:48 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | TAE | Geneva | 117 min |
| Feb 11, 7:49 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 116 min |
| Feb 11, 9:39 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 6 hr |
| Feb 11, 12:14 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | TAE | Dale | 36 hr |
| Feb 11, 12:14 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | TAE | Geneva | 36 hr |
| Feb 11, 3:33 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 6 hr |
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.