Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 7, 1996, 3:05 AM EST for Jones County, Monroe County, Georgia. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 1996, 3:05 AM EST (08:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1996, 6:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jones County, GA, Monroe County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 070806 FFWATL GAC169-207-171-263-293-071100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 305 AM EST THU MAR 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...JONES COUNTY...MONROE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...LAMAR COUNTY...TALBOT COUNTY...UPSON COUNTY AT 305 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A SLOW MOVING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM TALBOTTON TO FORSYTH. THIS LINE HAS PRODUCED RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES BETWEEN 2 AND 3 AM EST. THIS RAINFALL ON TOP OF YESTERDAYS RAIN HAS PRODUCED A FLASH FLOOD SITUATION. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 12:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 68 min |
| Mar 7, 1:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 48 min |
| Mar 7, 1:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 2:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson, Johnson, Washington | 41 min |
| Mar 7, 2:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 45 min |
| Mar 7, 2:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 45 min |
| Mar 7, 3:05 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Lamar, Upson | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:05 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Talbot | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:46 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam | 5 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:46 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Warren | 5 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 5:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Jones, Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 4 hr |
| Mar 7, 5:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Talbot | 4 hr |
| Mar 7, 6:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Troup | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar, Pike, Spalding, Upson | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones, Morgan, Putnam | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Oconee, Walton | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.