Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Atlanta, GA

Issued

Feb 2, 1996, 3:00 PM EST (20:00 UTC)

Expired

Feb 2, 1996, 5:00 PM EST

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Atlanta, GA

Area

Whole counties

County Cobb County, GA

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KATL 022002 RRA
FFWATL
GAC063-067-089-121-135-022200-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
300 PM EST FRI FEB 2 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...NORTHERN CLAYTON COUNTY...COBB COUNTY...DE KALB COUNTY
   ...FULTON COUNTY...GWINNETT COUNTY
 
...VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE CONTINUED OVER ATLANTA SINCE THIS MORNING AND
HAVE CAUSED CREEKS AND LOW TO BECOME FLOODED...
 
...FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA CREEKS OF ATLANTA WHICH
   INCLUDES SOPE CREEK...BIG CREEEK...SUWANNEE CREEK...AND PEACHTREE
   CREEK...
 
SINCE 7 AM THIS MORNING ALMOST 1.5 INCHES HAS FALL OVER THE METRO AREA
OF ATLANTA. FOR EXAMPLE AT BISTY GRANT PARK IN NORTH FULTON COUNTY ABOUT
1.5 HAS FALLEN WITH OVER 2 INCHES DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS. ATLANTA
AIRPORT AND AT PEACHTREE DE KALB AIRPORT AOUBT 1 INCHES HAS REPORTED
WITH STORM TOTALS OF NEAR 2 INCHES IN THE PAST 24 HOURS.
 
AS A RESUTL OF THE HEAVY RAINS AND EXTREMELY WET GROUND...FLOODING HAS
DEVELOPED ON MOST OF THE CREEKS AROUND ATLANTA. AT BIG CREEK IN
ALPHARETTA THE STAGE AT 130 PM WAS 7.6 FEET. BANKFUL IS 7 FEET. BIG
CREEK WILL LIKELY CREST BETWEEN 9 AND 10 FEET LATE TONIGHT.
 
ON PEACHTREE CREEK AT NORTHSIDE DRIVE IN NORTH FULTON COUNTY THE READING
AT 130 PM WAS 15.1 FEET. FLOOD STAGE IS 17 FEET. PEACHTREE IS EXPECTED
TO REACH FLOOD STAGE BY AROUND 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON. THE STAGE COULD RISE
HIGHER WITH AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN DURING THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS.
 
ON SUWANNEE CREEK THE STAGE WAS 6.3 FEET THIS AFTERNOON. BANKFULL IS 7
FEET. THE CREEK SHOULD RISE TO BETWEEN 8 AND 9 FEET BY TONIGHT AND
REMAIN NEAR THAT LEVEL THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING..
 
IF YOU LIVE NEAR ONE OF THE AREA CREEKS...YOU SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM AND
KEEP CHILDREN FROM PLAYING IN THESE CREEKS. THESE STREAM TRAVEL FAST AND
CONTAIN LOTS OF TRASH.
 
 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.  CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG
 STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.