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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 2014, 3:01 PM EDT for Brooks County, Lowndes County, Georgia. It was in force for 59 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 2014, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2014, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Brooks County, GA, Lowndes County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 3:26 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Valdosta, GA | FLOODING NEAR DOWNTOWN VALDOSTA WITH SOME VEHICLES STALLED IN WATER. |
| Sep 7, 3:27 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 3 E Quitman, GA | NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLOODED ROADWAYS ACROSS THE COUNTY. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 1187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
169 WGUS52 KTAE 071901 FFWTAE GAC027-185-072000- /O.NEW.KTAE.FF.W.0036.140907T1901Z-140907T2000Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 301 PM EDT SUN SEP 7 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BROOKS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF QUITMAN... SOUTHERN LOWNDES COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF VALDOSTA... * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 258 PM EDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO I-75 AT EXIT 16 PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOVE AWAY FROM RISING WATER TO HIGHER GROUND! MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS. REMEMBER...TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN. && LAT...LON 3090 8358 3088 8317 3065 8319 3067 8360 $$ 11-MOORE
1 follow-up statement
603 WGUS72 KTAE 071953 FFSTAE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 353 PM EDT SUN SEP 7 2014 GAC027-185-072001- /O.EXP.KTAE.FF.W.0036.000000T0000Z-140907T2000Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ LOWNDES GA-BROOKS GA- 353 PM EDT SUN SEP 7 2014 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 400 PM EDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN BROOKS AND SOUTHWESTERN LOWNDES COUNTIES. THERE MAY STILL BE AREAS OF FLOODING BUT THEY SHOULD BE RECEDING OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS. REMEMBER...TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN... LAT...LON 3090 8358 3088 8317 3065 8319 3067 8360 $$ 11-MOORE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Early, Miller, Seminole | 40 min |
| Sep 7, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Tift, Worth | 23 min |
| Sep 7, 5:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Grady, Mitchell | 118 min |
| Sep 7, 5:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Dougherty, Lee, Terrell | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 6:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Baker, Dougherty, Terrell | 118 min |
| Sep 7, 7:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Calhoun, Dougherty | 86 min |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.