Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 92, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2003, 7:37 PM EDT for Clarke 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 1, 2003, 7:37 PM EDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2003, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clarke County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 012338 FFWATL GAC059-020230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 737 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CLARKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1030 PM EDT * AT 733 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER ATHENS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WINTERVILLE RAINFALL ESTIMATES IN THE NORTH END OF CLARKE COUNTY ARE UP TO 4 INCHES. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVER THE NEXT 2 OR 3 HOURS WILL BE AROUND 1 INCH. 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. YOU CAN REPORT SERIOUS FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3396 8352 3391 8342 3393 8326 3405 8335 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 3:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fulton | 2 hr |
| 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 |
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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.