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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 1994, 3:40 AM EDT for Clayton County, Henry County, Georgia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1994, 3:40 AM EDT (07:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1994, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clayton County, GA, Henry County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 050741 FFWATL GAC063-077-113-151-255-171-051000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 340 AM EDT TUE JUL 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...CLAYTON COUNTY...COWETA COUNTY...FAYETTE COUNTY ...HENRY COUNTY...SPALDING COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...LAMAR COUNTY AT 330 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SPIRAL BAND WITH NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. MOST OF THESE STORMS EXTENDED FROM MCDONOUGH TO NEWNAN AND SOUTH. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH TO NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. ESTIMATES FROM WEATHER RADAR AND SATELLITE INDICAET 6 TO 8 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS THESE COUNTIES. AS OF 300 AM EDT THE WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAD RECORDED 10 INCHES OF RAIN FROM THE STORMS. UP TO AN ADDITIONAL 4 INCHES IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. AT 330 AM EDT...COWETA...FAYETTE...HENRY AND SPALDING COUNTY 911'S HAVE REPORTED NUMEROUS ROADS BLOCKED BY STANDING WATER. IN FAYETTE COUNTY...NEAR PEACHTREE CITY SEVERAL CONDOS WERE BEING EVACUATED AND IN CLAYTON COUNTY NEAR JONESBORO A TRAILER PARK WAS BEING EVACUATED BY BOAT. 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. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR THE LATEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS.
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, 2:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 3 hr |
| 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, 3:51 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.