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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 26, 1995Toombs County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 1995, 1:45 AM EDT for Toombs County, Georgia. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 26, 1995, 1:45 AM EDT (05:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 1995, 5:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Toombs County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 1995-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2727 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 1995-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2727 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 260545
FFWATL
GAC279-260900-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
145 AM EDT SAT AUG 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...TOOMBS COUNTY
 
RADAR AND SATELLITE ESTIMATES UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER
PORTIONS OF TOOMBS COUNTY DURING THE NIGHT. WATER HAS BEEN REPORTED
ACROSS STATE ROADS 292 AND 56. SOME DIRT ROADS HAVE BEEN WASHED OUT.
RADAR INDICATES MORE HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE OVER THE COUNTY TONIGHT.
 
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERSB 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.
 
 
 
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.