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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 19, 2016Quitman County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 2016, 5:24 PM EDT for Quitman County, Georgia. It was in force for 2 hr. 1 report 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: May 19, 2016, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2016, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Quitman County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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
May 19, 6:22 PM EDT	HEAVY RAIN 4.25	1 E Ricks Place, GA	STORM TOTAL THUS FAR.

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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 999 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

445 
WGUS52 KTAE 192124
FFWTAE
GAC239-192330-
/O.NEW.KTAE.FF.W.0008.160519T2124Z-160519T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
524 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN QUITMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 523 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. AROUND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
  FALLEN IN UNDER 2 HOURS. AT LEAST ANOTHER 2 INCHES WILL BE
  POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN
  SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  WIRE BRIDGE...BONAPARTES RETREAT AND HATCHER. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.

&&

LAT...LON 3178 8501 3178 8502 3177 8503 3177 8507
      3178 8508 3178 8514 3179 8513 3183 8513
      3184 8514 3185 8514 3185 8501

$$

15-HARRIGAN

1 follow-up statement

542 
WGUS72 KTAE 192249
FFSTAE

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
649 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2016

GAC239-192258-
/O.CAN.KTAE.FF.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160519T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
QUITMAN GA-
649 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN QUITMAN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD
CLOSURES.

LAT...LON 3178 8501 3178 8502 3177 8503 3177 8507
      3178 8508 3178 8514 3179 8513 3183 8513
      3184 8514 3185 8514 3185 8501

$$

15-HARRIGAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	25 min
May 19, 3:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Quitman, Randolph, Terrell	114 min
May 19, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes	26 min
May 19, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph	30 min
May 19, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Quitman, Randolph	16 min
May 19, 4:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Quitman	116 min
May 19, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Mitchell	44 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2016 Every flash 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.