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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 28, 1997Floyd County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1997, 8:29 PM EDT for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 76 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 1997, 8:29 PM EDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1997, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
76 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Floyd County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 890 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
890 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
985 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 9:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCHaralson, Polk2 hr
Jun 28, 9:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCTroup2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.