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Flood Watch 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 6, 2025Clay County, Quitman County, Randolph County, Georgia; Coffee County, Dale County, Henry County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flood watch at Apr 6, 2025, 5:51 PM EDT for Clay County, Quitman County, Randolph County, Georgia; Coffee County, Dale County, Henry County, Alabama. It took effect at Apr 6, 2025, 7:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 6, 2025, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 6, 2025, 7:00 PM EDT
Expired
Apr 7, 2025, 12:00 PM EDT
In force
17 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Flood severity
None

Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Henry County, AL, Clay County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 209 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2025-04-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 59 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2025-04-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 258 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
59 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 Apr 6, 3:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 3:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 6, 2:53 AM EDTHigh Surf AdvisoryTAEBay, Walton20 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in Georgia, 2025Flood Watches in Alabama, 2025Every flood watch in 2025

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.