Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 84, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2003, 3:54 PM EDT for Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 2 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 1, 2003, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 356 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KFFC 011955 FFWATL GAC121-012200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 354 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 349 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER ATLANTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SANDY SPRINGS CREEKS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE PEACHTREE CREEK...PROCTOR CREEK...AND NANCY CREEK. PEACHTREE CREEK IS FORECAST TO RISE TO NEAR 17 FEET BETWEEN 5 AND 6 PM. 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. 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 3374 8457 3368 8437 3404 8425 3388 8445 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 3:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper | 17 min |
| Jul 1, 4:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 5:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Jasper | 118 min |
| Jul 1, 5:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Walton | 114 min |
| Jul 1, 5:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hancock | 22 min |
| Jul 1, 5:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Greene | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 7:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 4 hr |
| Jul 1, 7:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clarke | 3 hr |
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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.