Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Nov 25, 1992, 2:15 PM EST for DeKalb County, Fulton County, Gwinnett County, Georgia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 25, 1992, 2:15 PM EST (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 25, 1992, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties DeKalb County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Nov 25, 10:33 AM EST, 3 hours 42 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-251630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1025 AM EST WED NOV 25 1992. ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA FOR TODAY. THIS FLASH FLOOD WATCH INCLUDES ALL NORTHEAST GEORGIA COUNTIES... RAIN...WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL RATES...CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EXTENDED INTO THE WEST CAROLINAS AND A SMALL PART OF SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAINFALL RATES IN GEORGIA WERE NEAR CORNELIA...JEFFERSON AND JACKSON GEORGIA. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MJOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR... WHILE THE AREA MOVED TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 11:34 AM EST, 2 hours 41 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-251735- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1135 AM EST WED NOV 25 1992. ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA FOR TODAY. THIS FLASH FLOOD WATCH INCLUDES ALL NORTHEAST GEORGIA COUNTIES... RAIN...WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL RATES...CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EXTENDED INTO THE WEST CAROLINAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAINFALL RATES WERE JUST SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OF ATHENS AND NEAR HARTWELL GEORGIA. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR... WHILE THE AREA MOVED TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 11:38 AM EST, 2 hours 37 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-251735- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1135 AM EST WED NOV 25 1992. ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA FOR TODAY. THIS FLASH FLOOD WATCH INCLUDES ALL NORTHEAST GEORGIA COUNTIES... RAIN...WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL RATES...CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EXTENDED INTO THE WEST CAROLINAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAINFALL RATES WERE JUST SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OF ATHENS AND NEAR HARTWELL GEORGIA. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES A$N HOUR... WHILE THE AREA MOVED TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 12:05 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-252000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 1200 PM EST TUE NOV 24 1992 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY FOR MUCH OF NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH... JASPER...PUTNAM...MONROE...JONES...CRAWFORD...BIBB...AND PEACH. AT NOON RADAR SHOWED MOSTLY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN FALLING IN THE CENTRAL GEORGIA PART OF THE WATCH. A CHECK WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS SHORTLY BEFORE NOON SHOWED NO SERIOUS FLOODING IN CENTRAL GEORGIA. HOWEVER...LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS...AND STRONG...POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOPE OVER PARTS OF C^ENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 12:08 PM EST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-252000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECT DATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 1200 PM EST WED NOV 25 1992 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY FOR MUCH OF NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH... JASPER...PUTNAM...MONROE...JONES...CRAWFORD...BIBB...AND PEACH. AT NOON RADAR SHOWED MOSTLY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN FALLING IN THE CENTRAL GEORGIA PART OF THE WATCH. A CHECK WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS SHORTLY BEFORE NOON SHOWED NO SERIOUS FLOODING IN CENTRAL GEORGIA. HOWEVER...LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS...AND STRONG...POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVlELOPE OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 2:07 PM EST, 8 minutes before
GAZ006-252200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 205 PM EST WED NOV 25 1992 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY FOR MUCH OF NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH... JASPER...PUTNAM...MONROE...JONES...CRAWFORD...BIBB...AND PEACH. AT 2 PM RADAR SHOWED A LARGRE AREA OF MOSTLY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN ...ALONG WITH A FEW HEAVY SHOWERS MOVING BACK INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE RAIN WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR FORSYTH TO ROBERTA AND FT VALLEY... AND EXTENDED BACK TO THE WEST TO COLUMBUS AND THE GEORGIA ALABAMA BORDER. THIS RAIN AREA WILL LIKELY CAUSE SOME STREET FLOODING AND MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AS IT MOVES THROUGH CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 6:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton, Walton | 48 min |
| Nov 25, 6:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Jackson, Oconee | 33 min |
| Nov 25, 9:56 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 4 hr |
| Nov 25, 10:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas | 4 hr |
| Nov 25, 10:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton | 4 hr |
| Nov 25, 10:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 4 hr |
| Nov 25, 2:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton | 3 hr |
| Nov 25, 2:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.