Alert archive / Georgia / Flood Watches in 2019
Flood Watch 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flood watch at Dec 21, 2019, 2:45 PM EST for 19 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Dec 22, 2019, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 21, 2019, 2:45 PM EST (19:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 22, 2019, 4:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 22, 2019, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lee County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Dec 21, 12:58 PM EST, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 21, 12:58 PM EST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 3:24 AM EST | Gale Warning | TAE | 40 hr | |
| Dec 21, 3:27 AM EST | Rip Current Statement | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton | 70 hr |
| Dec 21, 3:27 AM EST | High Surf Advisory | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton | 40 hr |
| Dec 21, 3:31 AM EST | Wind Advisory | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton | 40 hr |
Nearby
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.