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Flash Flood Warning 114, NWS Tallahassee, FL

November 6, 2024Brooks County, Lowndes County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Nov 6, 2024, 8:24 PM EST for Brooks County, Lowndes County, Georgia. It was in force for 11 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: Nov 6, 2024, 8:24 PM EST (01:24 UTC)
Expired: Nov 7, 2024, 7:30 AM EST
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Brooks County, GA, Lowndes County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 299 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 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 flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Nov 6, 6:14 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 6, 6:14 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 6, 2:56 PM EST, 5 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 6, 3:01 PM EST, 5 hours 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 6, 4:41 PM EST, 3 hours 43 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
441 PM EST Wed Nov 6 2024

FLZ017-018-GAZ157-158-062230-
Inland Jefferson FL-Leon FL-Grady GA-Thomas GA-
441 PM EST Wed Nov 6 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHEASTERN LEON...SOUTHEASTERN
GRADY AND SOUTHWESTERN THOMAS COUNTIES THROUGH 530 PM EST...

At 440 PM EST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 13
miles west of Monticello, moving northwest at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

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

Locations impacted include...
Tallahassee, Moncrief, Festus, Lake Iamonia, Bradfordville, Rocky
Hill, Killearn Lakes, Beachton, Miccosukee, Pisgah Church, and Lake
Miccosukee.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3048 8415 3065 8430 3066 8430 3067 8431
      3069 8429 3069 8434 3070 8433 3081 8410
      3058 8395
TIME...MOT...LOC 2140Z 149DEG 13KT 3061 8409

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

58-REESE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 6, 8:01 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay, Washington	25 min
Nov 6, 8:26 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Bay, Washington	3 hr
Nov 7, 1:46 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	6 hr
Nov 7, 2:43 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Leon, Wakulla	4 hr
Nov 7, 3:19 AM EST	High Surf Advisory	TAE	Franklin	33 hr
Nov 7, 4:37 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		44 hr
Nov 6, 7:23 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin, Tift	96 min
Nov 6, 7:47 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Lee	118 min
Nov 6, 8:16 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	8 min
Nov 6, 8:56 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Cook, Irwin, Tift	6 hr
Nov 6, 9:43 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	6 hr
Nov 6, 11:04 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	TAE	Lowndes	4 hr
Nov 7, 12:54 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	3 days
Nov 7, 7:28 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	4 hr
Nov 7, 9:14 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Berrien, Lanier	2 hr
Nov 7, 9:34 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Berrien, Lanier	2 hr
Nov 7, 6:31 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Lowndes	4 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.