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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 8, 1998, 4:51 AM EST for DeKalb County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 4 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
- Mar 8, 1998, 4:51 AM EST (09:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties DeKalb County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:52 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 080950 FFWATL GAC089-121-081400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 451 AM EST SUN MAR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...DEKALB COUNTY...FULTON COUNTY AT 445 AM EST PEACHTREE CREEKS STAGE WAS AT 15.78 FEET AND RISING 1 FOOT PER 20 MINUTES. THE CREEK WILL CREST AROUND 19 FEET AROUND 600 AM. AT 19 FEET WATER WILL BE ABOUT 1 FOOT DEEP ON HANOVER WEST DRIVE...HOMES FLOOD ALONG ARMAND DR. AND PEACHTREE BATLE CIRCLE...HOMES ALONG WOODWARD WAY FLOOD...BASEMENTS OF HOMES ALONG WWEST NANCY CREEK ROAD BEGIN TO FLOOD...FAIRIHAVEN CIRCLE BEGINS TO FLOOD. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND QUICKLY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. WATER DEPTHS OF ONLY ONE TO TWO FEET WILL CAUSE MOST AUTOMOBILES TO BECOME STRANDED OR FLOAT AWAY. IF THE WATER IS MOVING ...THE ROAD BED MAY BE ERODED. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. 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 ALL:OW CHILDREN TO PLAY NEAR CREEKS...DRAINAGE DITCHES OR URBAN SEWER SYSTEMS DURING OR AFTER HEAVY RAINS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 7:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 30 min |
| Mar 8, 10:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 26 min |
| Mar 8, 1:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 29 min |
| Mar 8, 2:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 23 min |
| Mar 8, 2:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 31 min |
| Mar 8, 2:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 26 min |
| Mar 8, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 4:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 22 min |
| Mar 8, 4:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker, Whitfield | 44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.