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Areal Flood Warning 15, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 8, 2021Ben Hill County, Irwin County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this areal flood warning at Oct 8, 2021, 12:07 PM EDT for Ben Hill County, Irwin County, Georgia. It was in force for 6 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: Oct 8, 2021, 12:07 PM EDT (16:07 UTC)
Expired: Oct 8, 2021, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Ben Hill County, GA, Irwin County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 647 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 891 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Oct 8, 11:24 AM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 11:24 AM EDT, 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 8, 8:41 AM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
841 AM EDT Fri Oct 8 2021

GAZ146-081315-
Colquitt GA-
841 AM EDT Fri Oct 8 2021

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Colquitt County through 915 AM EDT...

At 839 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles west of Riverside, or 11 miles west of Moultrie, moving
northeast at 25 mph.

HAZARD...Winds up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Moultrie, Doerun, Riverside, Schley, Funston, Minnesota, Center Hill,
South Moultrie, Sigsbee, Poplar Arbor Church, Hartsfield, New Elm and
Bay.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3130 8377 3121 8370 3111 8382 3109 8396
      3113 8400 3117 8400 3127 8399 3132 8394
      3133 8386
TIME...MOT...LOC 1239Z 224DEG 21KT 3115 8396

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

99-OLIVER

Local storm report, Oct 8, 11:08 AM EDT, 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 8, 11:10 AM EDT, 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 8, 11:13 AM EDT, 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 8, 11:18 AM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 8, 11:20 AM EDT, 47 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 8, 4:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	37 min
Oct 8, 4:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay	2 hr
Oct 8, 4:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	46 min
Oct 8, 4:58 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		47 min
Oct 8, 5:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	48 min
Oct 8, 6:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	42 min
Oct 8, 6:38 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		67 min
Oct 8, 6:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Wakulla	45 min
Oct 8, 4:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty, Tift, Turner, Worth	47 min
Oct 8, 5:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	42 min
Oct 8, 5:49 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift, Turner	3 hr
Oct 8, 6:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	32 min
Oct 8, 6:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	19 min
Oct 8, 6:58 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	2 hr
Oct 8, 7:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	42 min
Oct 8, 7:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	32 min
Oct 8, 8:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt	34 min
Oct 8, 9:07 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	2 hr

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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.