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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 30, 2003, 5:34 PM EDT for Bartow County, Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 116 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
- Apr 30, 2003, 5:34 PM EDT (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2003, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bartow County, GA, Gordon County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1308 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 302140 FFWATL GAC015-129-302330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 534 PM EDT WED APR 30 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 532 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN TRAINING IN A LINE FROM JUST NORTH OF CARTERSVILLE TO NEAR CALHOUN...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. FLOODING ON ROADWAYS HAS BEEN REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC NEAR HIGHWAY 411. LICK CREEK...SALACOA CREEK...PINE LOG AND REDBUD CREEKS ARE WITHIN THE AREA OF HEAVIEST RAINFALL WHERE FLOODING MAY OCCUR. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES... INCLUDING SUVS AND PICKUPS. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3419 8493 3423 8475 3457 8474 3456 8499 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 30 min |
| Apr 30, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 27 min |
| Apr 30, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 25 min |
| Apr 30, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin | 36 min |
| Apr 30, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 24 min |
| Apr 30, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 27 min |
| Apr 30, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 26 min |
| Apr 30, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 23 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.