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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 24, 1997Pulaski County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 1997, 9:07 PM EDT for Pulaski County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1997, 9:07 PM EDT (01:07 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1997, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Pulaski County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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 1997-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 733 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
733 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.3

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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
May 24, 8:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTalbot, Upson42 min
May 24, 8:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMacon41 min
May 24, 8:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTaylor37 min
May 24, 9:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPulaski38 min

Nearby

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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.