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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 1996, 9:32 PM EDT for Paulding 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
- Aug 11, 1996, 9:32 PM EDT (01:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 1996, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Paulding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 731 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 120132 FFWATL GAC015-115-223-233-120430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 932 PM EDT SUN AUG 11 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...BARTOW COUNTY...FLOYD COUNTY...PAULDING COUNTY...POLK COUNTY ...HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING OVER FLOYD...POLK...PAULDING...AND BARTOW COUNTIES... WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAIN CONTINUING TO FALL OVER BARTOW AND PAULDING COUNTIES AND MOVING INTO POLK AND FLOYD COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THESE SAME AREAS THAT ALREADY RAIN SOAKED THROUGH MIDNIGHT...RESULTING IN THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING. THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR AND HAVE PRODUCED STORM TOTALS OF THREE TO FOUR INCHES IN SOME PLACES. THIS RAINFALL RESULTED IN THE FLOODING OF SOME ROADS IN FLOYD COUNTY AND THE CLOSING OF HIGHWAY 61 IN PAULDING COUNTY. 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. 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. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 4:45 PM EDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
GAZ019-112230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 430 PM EDT SUN AUG 11 1996 ...HEAVY RAIN ACROSS FLOYD COUNTY... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SLOWLY NORTH NORTHEAST ACROSS FLOYD COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES OF UP TWO INCHES AND HOUR OR MORE. THIS HAS RESULTED IN STORM TOTALS OF OVER THREE INCHES WHICH HAS CAUSED SOME MINOR FLOODING OF STREETS...SMALL CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS. THESE STORMS WILL ALSO ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. OTHER STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MORE ACROSS THE COUNTY THROUGH 630 PM. RESIDENTS OF FLOYD COUNTY ARE URGED NOT TO DRIVE INTO4 WATER COVERED ROADS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THIS SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 6:06 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
GAZ012-019-020-120005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 604 PM EDT SUN AUG 11 1996 ...HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING ACROSS FLOYD COUNTY AND MOVING INTO GORDON AND BARTOW COUNITES... WEATHER RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO FLOYD COUNTY FROM ALABAMA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL RATES OF AN INCH AN HOUR OR MORE. THIS RAIN WILL BE ON TOP OF ALREADY RAIN SOAKED AREAS AND MAY CAUSE REFLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...LOW LYING AREAS AND SOME ROADS. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO GORDON AND BARTOW COUNTIES FROM FLOYD COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR. THIS MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADS. RESIDENTS OF THESE COUNTIES ARE URGED TO REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALIZED FLOODING AND NOT TO DRIVE INTO WATER COVERED ROADS. THESE STORMS MAY ALSO ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 9:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Polk | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 11:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Douglas | 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.