Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this flash flood warning at Oct 13, 1994, 2:55 AM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 1994, 2:55 AM EDT (06:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 1994, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Effingham County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 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 KSAV 130705 FFWSAV GAC029-031-051-103-179-131300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 255 AM EDT THU OCT 13 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAVANNAH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA ...BRYAN COUNTY...BULLOCH COUNTY...CHATHAM COUNTY ...EFFINGHAM COUNTY...LIBERTY COUNTY AT 250 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED CLUSTERS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING TO REDEVELOP AND MOVE OVER PORTIONS OF CHATHAM... BRYAN...LIBERTY...EFFINGHAM AND BULLOCH COUNTIES. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT AROUND 5 MILES PER HOUR AND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO AFFECT THESE COUNTIES THROUGH MID MORNING...THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH 9 AM. MANY STREAMS AND DRAINAGE DITCHES REMAIN AT OR OVER THEIR CAPACITY AND FLOODING OF ROADS AND OTHER LOW-LYING AREAS CONTINUES TO BE A SERIOUS PROBLEM. SINCE WEDNESDAY MORNING...RAINFALL TOTALS OF UP TO 10 INCHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THESE AREAS. SINCE MIDNIGHT...OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT THE SAVANNAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND 3.60 INCHES HAS FALLEN AT WTOC-TV IN DOWNTOWN SAVANNAH. THE POTENTIAL REMAINS FOR ADDITIONAL RAINFALL RATES TO EQUAL OR EXCEED 3/4 OF AN INCH PER HOUR THROUGH SUNRISE WHICH MAY PRODUCE ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO 4 INCHES BY MID-MORNING. ALSO...HIGH TIDE OCCURS ALONG THE GEORGIA COAST NEAR 330 AM THIS MORNING WHICH WILL SLOW RUNOFF RATES FOR AREAS NEAR THE COAST. 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. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR A LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Liberty | 6 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.