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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 27, 1997Meriwether County, Spalding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 27, 1997, 8:29 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 6 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
Apr 27, 1997, 8:29 PM EDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 1997, 2:30 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Meriwether County, GA, Spalding County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 24 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 1997-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1997-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 132 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
247 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 280031
FFWATL
GAC255-199-280630-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
829 PM EDT SUN APR 27 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...SPALDING COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...MERIWETHER COUNTY
 
AT 825 PM EDT MERIWETHER COUNTY EOC REPORTED WIDESPREAD FLOODING OF LOW
LYING AREAS ACROSS MUCH OF MERIWETHER COUNTY. WSR-88D RADAR ESTIMATES
MORE THAN 2.5 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS FALLEN OVER MUCH OF MERIWETHER
COUNTY AND PARTS OF SPALDING COUNTY SINCE EARLIER THIS MORNING. MORE
RAINFALL COULD HAVE FALLEN IN SOME SPOTS. RADAR SHOWS MODERATE RAINFALL
WILL CONTINUE TO FALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS
BEFORE IT TAPERS OFF.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE
...ON FOOT. DO NOT ALLOW CHILDREN TO PLAY NEAR CREEKS...DRAINAGE
DITCHES OR URBAN SEWER SYSTEMS DURING OR AFTER HEAVY RAINS.
 
IF RAPIDLY RISING WATER THREATENS HOMES OR BUSINESSES IN YOUR AREA
....OR IF YOU SEE R~OADS OR BRIDGES BEING COVERED WITH WATER FROM
RISING CREEKS OR STREAMS...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 770-486-8535.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 2:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilcox40 min
Apr 28, 2:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge30 min
Apr 28, 2:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge34 min
Apr 28, 3:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens50 min
Apr 28, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Heard43 min
Apr 28, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas, Fulton44 min
Apr 28, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Fulton45 min
Apr 28, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb51 min
Apr 28, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMorgan, Oconee65 min
Apr 28, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGordon65 min
Apr 28, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll34 min
Apr 28, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett59 min
Apr 28, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene40 min
Apr 28, 4:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGilmer38 min
Apr 28, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Walton46 min
Apr 28, 4:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas29 min
Apr 28, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPolk25 min
Apr 28, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHall, Jackson51 min
Apr 28, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Paulding43 min
Apr 28, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks32 min
Apr 28, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow45 min
Apr 28, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Fulton27 min
Apr 28, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee, Forsyth46 min
Apr 28, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMadison20 min
Apr 28, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGordon, Walker48 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.