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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 31, 2016, 3:38 PM CDT for Geneva County, Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 112 min. 4 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
- Mar 31, 2016, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2016, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 112 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Geneva County, AL, Houston County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 5:00 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 S Dothan, AL | THIRD AVENUE CLOSE TO THE INTERSECTION OF HODGESVILLE ROAD IS REPORTED UNDERWATER. |
| Mar 31, 5:00 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 4.25 | Slocomb, AL | PUBLIC REPORT OF 4.25 INCHES OF RAIN IN 3 HOURS IN SLOCOMB |
| Mar 31, 5:10 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 N Taylor, AL | WATER COVERING ROADWAY |
| Mar 31, 5:10 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Ne Taylor, AL | WATER COVERING ROADWAY |
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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -640 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1024 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
584
WGUS52 KTAE 312038
FFWTAE
ALC061-069-312230-
/O.NEW.KTAE.FF.W.0003.160331T2038Z-160331T2230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
338 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
HOUSTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA...
EASTERN GENEVA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
* AT 337 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. A RAIN GAUGE IN WESTERN GENEVA
COUNTY MEASURED 2.72 INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR AND THIS HEAVY
RAINFALL IS SPREADING EASTWARD. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
COTTONWOOD...DOTHAN...HARTFORD...TAYLOR...ASHFORD...SLOCOMB...COWARTS...
WEBB...KINSEY...MALVERN...REHOBETH...AVON...MADRID...MEMPHIS...GREEN
ACRES...ARDILLA...SMYRNA...SOUTHERN JUNCTION...HODGESVILLE AND JONES
CROSSROADS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS
WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
&&
LAT...LON 3121 8569 3123 8569 3125 8567 3127 8566
3128 8561 3125 8554 3124 8549 3128 8548
3130 8514 3104 8514 3101 8569 3120 8570
$$
42-DVDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 2:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 39 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 3:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Geneva | 116 min |
| Mar 31, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 4:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Geneva | 63 min |
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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.