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Areal Flood Warning 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this areal flood warning at Aug 8, 2016, 10:49 AM EDT for Dixie County, Lafayette County, Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 12 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
- Aug 8, 2016, 10:49 AM EDT (14:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2016, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Dixie County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Taylor County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 8, 10:03 AM EDT, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 10:03 AM EDT, 46 minutes before
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1036 AM EDT MON AUG 08 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0900 AM HEAVY RAIN 9 WNW HATCH BEND 29.88N 83.06W
08/08/2016 M12.40 INCH LAFAYETTE FL MESONET
STORM TOTAL SINCE SUNDAY OF 12.40 INCHES AT THE SRWMD
RAIN GAUGE ALONG TOM GUNTER ROAD THROUGH 9 AM EDT
0900 AM HEAVY RAIN 1 ESE MIDWAY 30.01N 83.06W
08/08/2016 M10.02 INCH LAFAYETTE FL MESONET
STORM TOTAL SINCE SUNDAY OF 10.02 INCHES AT THE SRWMD
MIDWAY TOWER RAIN GAUGE IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY THROUGH 9 AM
EDT.
0900 AM HEAVY RAIN COOKS HAMMOCK 29.93N 83.28W
08/08/2016 M7.57 INCH LAFAYETTE FL MESONET
STORM TOTAL SINCE SUNDAY OF 7.57 INCHES THROUGH 9 AM EDT
AT THE SRWMD RAIN GAUGE AT COOKS HAMMOCK
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DVDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 8:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jackson | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 9:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 10:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 11:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 63 min | |
| Aug 7, 11:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:22 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 38 min | |
| Aug 8, 12:55 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 50 min | |
| Aug 8, 1:43 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 47 min | |
| Aug 8, 2:08 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 52 min | |
| Aug 8, 2:42 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Taylor | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 11:07 AM EDT | Rip Current Statement | TAE | Bay, Gulf, Walton | 10 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:13 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 29 hr | |
| Aug 8, 5:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Washington | 91 min |
| Aug 8, 7:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 87 min |
| Aug 8, 4:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Coffee | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.