Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this flash flood warning at Oct 25, 1997, 9:10 PM EDT for Bacon County, Coffee County, Georgia. It was in force for 7 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
- Oct 25, 1997, 9:10 PM EDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 1997, 3:15 AM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bacon County, GA, Coffee County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 716 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAX 260219 COR FFWJAX GAC005-069-260815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1010 PM EDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM EST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA ...BACON COUNTY...COFFEE COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED FROM 3 TO 5 INCHES HAS FALLEN ACROSS COFFEE AND BACON COUNITES THIS EVENING... WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE. THE EMERGENCY MANAGER IN COFFEE COUNTY HAS REPORTED NUMEROUS ROADS AND STREETS FLOODED THIS EVENING. MOTORISTS OUT DRIVING SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION. REMEMBER TO NEVER DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. KK &
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.
NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Oct 25, 8:30 PM EDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 8:30 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 830 PM EDT SAT OCT 25 1997 BUSY WI SVR WX THIS EVE. CONCERNED ABOUT BNDRY COMING MY WAY FM TLH AREA AND STG S-SW FLO DVLPG OFF GLF LATER TNGT. WL LEAVE POPS AS IS AND MONITER. FIRST MCC IN GA MOVG THRU N CWA ATTM WI SVR WX AND SECOND MCC MOVG THIS WAY. MAY NEED TO BUMP UP POPS. WL WATCH TEMPS BUT WL LIKELY RAISE BASED ON CURRENT DWPTS NR 70. FG SHUD NOT BE MUCH OF A PROBLEM TNGT WI TOO MUCH CLD CVR. MAY BE OVERDOING WND A LTL OVR GAZ501 LATE TNGT. DO NOT SEE 20 KT WND TIL SUNDAY. WHAT DO YOU THINK MIA? MOHLIN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 25, 8:58 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA
858 PM EDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0640 PM PEARSON GA WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 ATKINSON TRAFFIC LIGHT DOWN DUE TO
WIND. REPORTED BY SHERIFF
OFFICE.
0640 PM WILLACOOCHEE GA WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 ATKINSON NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TREES
AND POWER LINES DOWN.
0659 PM PEARSON GA TORNADO
10/25/97 ATKINSON SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED
TORNADO ON THE GROUND
NORTH OF PEARSON.
0715 PM AMBROSE GA WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 COFFEE SHEFIFF OFFICE REPORTED
TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
OVER HIGHWAY 32 NEAR
AMBROSE CROSSING.
0835 PM BRISTOL GA .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 PIERCE PIERCE COUNTY SO REPORTED
DIME SIZE HAIL NEAR
BRISTOL IN NORTHERN PIERCE
COUNTY.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Wayne | 58 min |
| Oct 25, 9:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee | 6 hr |
| Oct 25, 11:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson | 50 min |
| Oct 25, 11:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling | 50 min |
| Oct 25, 11:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Ware | 53 min |
| Oct 26, 3:02 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Coffee | 7 hr |
| Oct 26, 2:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 55 min |
| Oct 26, 3:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson | 62 min |
| Oct 26, 3:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon, Ware | 55 min |
| Oct 26, 4:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon | 66 min |
| Oct 26, 4:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling | 60 min |
| Oct 26, 4:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson | 69 min |
| Oct 26, 4:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Wayne | 62 min |
| Oct 26, 4:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Ware | 70 min |
| Oct 26, 5:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley | 61 min |
| Oct 26, 5:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Pierce | 68 min |
| Oct 26, 5:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Glynn | 58 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.