Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 2002, 9:50 PM EDT for Union County, Georgia. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2002, 9:50 PM EDT (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2002, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Union County, GA
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 692 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KFFC 120150 FFWATL GAC291-120445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 943 PM EDT THU JUL 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... UNION COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1245 AM EDT * AT 940 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN UNION COUNTY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY...NORTH OF BLAIRSVILLE AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 129. THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR WASHED OUT ROADWAYS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3499 8412 3465 8409 3478 8383 3498 8395
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KFFC 120246 FFSATL GAC291-120445- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1045 PM EDT THU JUL 11 2002 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR UNION COUNTY UNTIL 1245 AM EDT... AT 1040 PM LIGHT TO OCCASIONALLY MODERATE RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL OVER UNION COUNTY. THIS RAIN WAS FALLING OVER AREAS THAT HAD RECEIVED UP TO 3 INCHES EARLIER THIS EVENING. AS RUN OFF CONTINUES FROM THE CURRENT RAIN AND EARLIER RAINFALL...FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY...THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES.
000 WGUS72 KFFC 120249 CCA FFSATL GAC291-120445- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1047 PM EDT THU JUL 11 2002 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR UNION COUNTY UNTIL 1245 AM EDT... AT 1040 PM LIGHT TO OCCASIONALLY MODERATE RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL OVER UNION COUNTY. THIS RAIN WAS FALLING OVER AREAS THAT HAD RECEIVED UP TO 3 INCHES EARLIER THIS EVENING. AS RUN OFF CONTINUES FROM THE CURRENT RAIN AND EARLIER RAINFALL...FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY...THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES.
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.