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Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 10, 2003Dawson County, Pickens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2003, 2:36 PM EDT for Dawson County, Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 114 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 10, 2003, 2:36 PM EDT (18:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2003, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 114 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dawson County, GA, Pickens County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 1832 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 694 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS52 KFFC 101840
FFWATL
GAC085-227-102030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
236 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DAWSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  PICKENS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 233 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS PICKENS COUNTY MOVING INTO DAWSON COUNTY.

THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THESE COUNTIES COULD DROP 2 INCHES OF
RAIN OR MORE WITHIN A VERY SHORT TIME. THIS COULD EVOLVE INTO A VERY
DANGEROUS SITUATION. 

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS
AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO
TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.

LAT...LON 3453 8418 3439 8397 3433 8394 3434 8425
          3437 8426 3438 8466 3455 8466 3455 8429
          3462 8421

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 11:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oconee	35 min
Jul 10, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	31 min
Jul 10, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	25 min
Jul 10, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	45 min
Jul 10, 5:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	87 min
Jul 10, 5:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb	97 min
Jul 10, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton	36 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.