Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002

Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 7, 20024 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2002, 7:10 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 110 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2002, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2002, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 110 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dougherty County, GA, Lee County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Worth County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 143 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1083 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -6 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 
WGUS52 KTAE 072310
FFWTLH
GAC095-177-273-321-080100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
710 PM EDT FRI JUN 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DOUGHERTY COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES...PUTNEY...ALBANY
  LEE COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES LEESBURG
  TERRELL COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES DAWSON
  WORTH COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT...

* AT 700 PM EDT(600 PM CDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER
  LEE...TERRELL...WESTERN WORTH...AND NORTHERN DOUGHERTY COUNTIES.
  RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES ARE 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. THE STORMS
  ARE SLOWLY DRIFTING TO THE SOUTH. REPORTS FROM LEE COUNTY INDICATE
  SOME RURAL ROADS ARE EXPERIENCING FLOODING. AFTER SUNSET...THE 
  STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO SLOWLY WEAKEN.

* EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE RAPID FLOODING
  OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES.
  ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS
  OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT
  TO FLOODING.

* DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE
  ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
  CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED
  QUICKLY. IT ONLY TAKES A FOOT OR TWO OF FLOWING WATER TO SWEEP MOST
  CARS AWAY. REMEMBER...MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.

* RESIDENTS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD MONITOR FLOOD CONDITIONS
  AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND SHOULD FLOOD WATERS
  THREATEN. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY MOVE TO
  HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.

LAT...LON 3177 8396 3146 8395 3146 8439 3185 8452
          3177 8416

.END

7-TREXLER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 9:22 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		83 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.