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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Oct 10, 2018, 8:27 PM EDT for Dougherty County, Lee County, Georgia. 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 10, 2018, 8:27 PM EDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 10, 2018, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Dougherty County, GA, Lee County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted.
984
WGUS52 KTAE 110027
FFWTAE
GAC095-177-110315-
/O.NEW.KTAE.FF.W.0013.181011T0027Z-181011T0315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
Issued by National Weather Service Jacksonville FL
827 PM EDT WED OCT 10 2018
The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Eastern Dougherty County in southwestern Georgia...
Lee County in southwestern Georgia...
* Until 1115 PM EDT.
* At 819 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to Hurricane
Michael across the warned area. Up to three to four inches of rain
have already fallen. Flash flooding imminent or already occurring.
* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Leesburg, Putney, Albany, Smithville, East Albany, Marine Corps
Logistics Base, Turner City, Chokee, Stocks and Radium Springs.
Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 are possible in the warned
area.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
&&
LAT...LON 3191 8392 3186 8393 3180 8398 3180 8401
3176 8399 3172 8403 3165 8402 3165 8399
3163 8401 3156 8398 3155 8400 3144 8400
3144 8412 3162 8418 3162 8431 3175 8429
3183 8426 3187 8430 3187 8434 3192 8434
$$
MCGINNISThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 9:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Quitman, Randolph, Terrell | 4 hr |
| Oct 10, 9:52 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Lee | 13 hr |
| Oct 10, 9:56 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Terrell, Webster | 13 hr |
| Oct 10, 9:56 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Lee | 72 hr |
| Oct 10, 10:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Dougherty | 12 hr |
| Oct 10, 10:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Baker, Mitchell | 13 hr |
| Oct 10, 10:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Decatur | 7 days |
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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.