Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 111, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2003, 9:08 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Georgia. It was in force for 67 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
- Jul 13, 2003, 9:08 PM EDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2003, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cherokee County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS52 KFFC 140108
FFWATL
GAC057-140215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
908 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT
* AT 905 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CANTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
15 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BALL GROUND AND HOLLY
SPRINGS
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
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.
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. TWO
FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES...INCLUDING SUVS
AND PICKUPS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.
LAT...LON 3422 8465 3409 8457 3410 8443 3421 8427
3438 8436
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 36 min |
| Jul 13, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Fulton | 27 min |
| Jul 13, 9:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro, Warren | 87 min |
| Jul 13, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 36 min |
| Jul 13, 9:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 38 min |
| Jul 13, 9:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Barrow, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson | 94 min |
| Jul 13, 10:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Warren | 118 min |
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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.