Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Watches in 2013
Flash Flood Watch 12, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood watch at Sep 24, 2013, 1:26 PM CDT for 9 counties in Florida; 5 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Sep 24, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 24, 2013, 1:26 PM CDT (18:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 24, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2013, 1:49 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Clay County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Early County, GA, Miller County, GA, Seminole County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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, 6.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 466 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 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 Sep 24, 10:52 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 24, 10:52 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 8:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Dale | 2 hr |
| Sep 23, 10:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Dale | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Florida, 2013Flash Flood Watches in Georgia, 2013Flash Flood Watches in Alabama, 2013Every flash flood watch in 2013
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.