Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 1994, 2:20 AM EDT for Meriwether County, Pike County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1994, 2:20 AM EDT (06:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1994, 5:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Meriwether County, GA, Pike County, GA, Upson County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 901 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 KATL 050622 FFWATL GAC199-231-293-050900- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 220 AM EDT TUE JUL 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MERIWETHER COUNTY...PIKE COUNTY...UPSON COUNTY HEAVY RAINS HAVE PERSISTED ACROSS THE WARNED COUNTIES FOR MOST OF MONDAY EVENING AND THIS MORNING. AT 215 AM EDT THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE OF MERIWETHER COUTNY REPORTED WATER 2 TO 3 FEET DEEP ON SEVERAL ROADS WITH 3 FEET OF WATER ON HIGHWAY 109 IN MEANSVILLE. DOWNED TREES AND DAMAGE TO ROOFS ON SEVERAL BUILDINGS WAS REPORTED IN ZEUBLON. REPORTS OF UP TO 12 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE COUNTY HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 5 TO 8 INCHES ARE INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR AND SATELLITE ESTIMATES ACROSS THESE COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL TOTALS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE EXPECTED BEFORE SUNRISE. PERSONS ARE ALSO CAUTIONED TO WATCH FOR DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES. WITH THE GROUND SOAKED AND MORE RAIN EXPECTED...ANY GUSTY WINDS MAY BLOW TREES DOWN...CREATING FURTHER HAZARDS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING 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. STAY TUNED TO NOSA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER I NFORMATION ON THIS FLOODING SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 11:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 41 min |
| Jul 5, 3:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Spalding | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Lamar | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Crawford, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Peach | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jasper, Jones | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Henry, Lamar, Spalding | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Crawford, Monroe | 3 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.