Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 3, 1991, 1:00 PM EST for Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 1991, 1:00 PM EST (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1991, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richmond County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAGS 031800
FFWAGS
GAC245-032100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
100 PM EST SUN MAR 3 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF GEORGIA
RICHMOND
AT 1245 PM EMERGENCY MANGEMENT OFFICIALS INDICATED THAT SEVERAL
CREEKS AND STREAMS WERE FLOODING AND SOME ROADS HAD BEEN WASHED
OUT.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 7:19 AM EST, 5 hours 41 minutes before
GAZ008-011-012-031300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 715 AM EST SUN MAR 3 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 27 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR COOK AND COLQUITT COUNTIES OF SOUTH GEORGIA. HOWEVER...OTHER COUNTIES FARTHER EAST ARE STILL INCLUDED IN THE WATCH UNTIL 11 AM EST... AT 712 AM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM NEAR VALDOSTA EAST TO BRUNSWICK AND NORTHEAST TO AROUND SAVANNAH. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THROUGHOUT THE AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR FLASH FLOODING THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. ALSO REMEMBER THAT CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME SOUTHERN GEORGIA THE NEXT FEW HOURS. PLEASE CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER NEWS MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 7:21 AM EST, 5 hours 39 minutes before
GAZ008-011-012-031300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 715 AM EST SUN MAR 3 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 27 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR COOK AND COLQUITT COUNTIES OF SOUTH GEORGIA. HOWEVER...OTHER COUNTIES FARTHER EAST ARE STILL INCLUDED IN THE WATCH UNTIL 11 AM EST... AT 712 AM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM NEAR VALDOSTA EAST TO BRUNSWICK AND NORTHEAST TO AROUND SAVANNAH. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 7:53 AM EST, 5 hours 7 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-031500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 755 AM EST SUN MAR 3 1991 ...MOST RAIN AND THUNDESTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF CENTRAL GEORGIA FOR THE TIME BEING...MORE ON THE WAY LATER TODAY... AT 745 AM RADAR LOCATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE STATE MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. WHILE MOST OF THE ACTIVE WEATHER HAS MOVED OUT OF CENTRAL GEORGIA IT WAS CONTINUING IN THE EASTERN THIRD OF GEORGIA AND REDEVELOPING OVER WEST GEORGIA. THERE WILL BE A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME THIS MORING WITH LITTLE OR NO CLOUDINESS. HOWEVER...WEATHER WAS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP OVER ALABAMA AND WEST GEORGIA AND WILL MOVE INTO AND DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA LATER THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON. THERE HAS BEEN FROM ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL OVER THE AREA...AND A FEW SPOTS WITH EVEN HEAVIER RAINFALL. RAINFALL TOTAL AT THE WEATHER OFFICE IN MACON SHOWS 4.78 INCHES OF RAINFALL THIS MONTH SO FAR. THAT IS 4.25 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL WITH 1.45 INCH HAVING BEEN RECEIVED SINCE EARLY THIS MORNING. THE GROUND IS SATURDATED. LOW LYING AREAS AND AREAS WHICH ARE FLOOD PRONE MAY HAVE PROBLEMS WITH ANY MORE RAIN TODAY. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS ARE REMINDED TO REMAIN ALERT TO WEATHER CONDITIONS AND NEARBY WATER LEVELS.
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 9:56 AM EST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
GAZ009-031600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 955 AM EST SUN MAR 3 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 950 AM RADAR LOCATED A THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARD ASBURN IN TURNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. BECAUSE OF THE FAST SPEED OF THIS THUNDERSTORM STRONG GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED AS IT MOVES THROUGH TURNER COUNTY. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO OCCUR...WITH POSSIBLE STREET FLOODING.
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 12:38 PM EST, 22 minutes before
GAZ002-004-031945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1237 PM EST SUN MAR 3 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLOOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 500 PM EST...GREENE...MORGAN...OCONEE...TALIAFERRO... AND WALTON... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM CEDARTOWN TO DAWSONVILLE TO TOCCOA... AT 1235 PM EST THE ATHENS RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WERE LOCATED ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF MACON...30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUGUSTA...JUST SOUTH OF WASHINGTON AND NEAR SWAINSBORO...ALL IN GEORGIA. ELSEWHERE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE DETECTED ACROSS MUCH OF GEORGIA AND EXTENDED INTO SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 11:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 60 min |
| Mar 3, 11:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 11:51 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston | 54 min |
| Mar 3, 11:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 46 min |
| Mar 3, 12:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Wilkinson | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 1:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Treutlen | 37 min |
| Mar 3, 3:44 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Richmond | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 1991Every flash flood warning in 1991
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.