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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 6, 2016Bay County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this areal flood warning at Jun 6, 2016, 3:52 PM CDT for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 3 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: Jun 6, 2016, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2016, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Bay County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 900 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Jun 6, 2:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 6, 11:31 AM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1231 PM EDT MON JUN 06 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1228 PM     HEAVY RAIN       5 E TALLAHASSEE         30.44N 84.20W
06/06/2016  M0.00 INCH       LEON               FL   PUBLIC

            FORMER NWS EMPLOYEE MEASURED 6.35 INCHES STORM TOTAL AND
            5.2 INCHES SINCE 7AM.

&&

CAMP

Local storm report, Jun 6, 11:53 AM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1253 PM EDT MON JUN 06 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1250 PM     HEAVY RAIN       5 SE TALLAHASSEE        30.39N 84.22W
06/06/2016  M0.00 INCH       LEON               FL   COCORAHS

            FORMER NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTS 3.86 INCHES OVER THE PAST 4
            HOURS.

&&

CAMP

Local storm report, Jun 6, 12:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
112 PM EDT MON JUN 06 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1250 PM     FLASH FLOOD      4 E TALLAHASSEE         30.44N 84.21W
06/06/2016                   LEON               FL   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            WEEMS ROAD CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.

&&

CAMP

Local storm report, Jun 6, 12:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
145 PM EDT MON JUN 06 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0144 PM     HEAVY RAIN       3 NE TALLAHASSEE COML A 30.47N 84.24W
06/06/2016  M5.00 INCH       LEON               FL   AMATEUR RADIO

            5 INCHES NEAR CENTERVILLE AND CAPITAL CIRCLE NE

&&

EWESTON

Local storm report, Jun 6, 12:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
151 PM EDT MON JUN 06 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0144 PM     FLOOD            1 WNW CENTERVILLE       30.56N 84.19W
06/06/2016                   LEON               FL   PUBLIC

            REPORT OF CREEK OVERFLOWING FROM MPING.

&&

EWESTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 8:56 PM CDT	Flood Watch	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 9 more	27 hr
Jun 6, 12:56 AM CDT	High Surf Advisory	TAE	Bay, Gulf, Walton	24 hr
Jun 6, 8:00 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		45 min
Jun 6, 9:12 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		48 min
Jun 6, 9:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla	3 hr
Jun 6, 9:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TAE	Dixie, Levy	27 hr
Jun 6, 10:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Bay	3 hr
Jun 6, 12:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Taylor, Wakulla	3 hr
Jun 6, 1:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Bay	3 hr
Jun 6, 1:58 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TAE	Wakulla	4 days
Jun 6, 2:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Taylor, Wakulla	3 hr
Jun 6, 5:22 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		17 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Florida, 2016 Every areal flood warning in 2016

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.