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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 2004, 3:17 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 2004, 3:17 PM EDT (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2004, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Meriwether County, GA, Talbot County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 4:05 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Woodbury, GA | ROADS CLOSED IN WOODBURY AND MANCHESTER. |
| Sep 16, 4:15 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Talbotton, GA | HIGHWAY 80 LEADING OUT OF DOWNTOWN FLOODED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 424 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KFFC 161917 FFWATL GAC199-263-162215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 317 PM EDT THU SEP 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 313 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR GREENVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF MANCHESTER. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WOODBURY...TALBOTTON...PLEASANT HILL...IMLAC AND CHALYBEATE SPRINGS. ALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL BE AFFECTED. EXPECT RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES IN THIS AREA. 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. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3260 8464 3268 8438 3318 8454 3318 8483 IF YOU SEE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 10:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Stewart | 35 min |
| Sep 16, 11:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry | 27 min |
| Sep 16, 11:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 23 min |
| Sep 16, 11:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 15 min |
| Sep 16, 11:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Stewart | 16 min |
| Sep 16, 12:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee, Stewart | 17 min |
| Sep 16, 12:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion | 29 min |
| Sep 16, 1:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot | 12 min |
| Sep 16, 1:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 15 min |
| Sep 16, 1:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot | 13 min |
| Sep 16, 2:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Haralson | 19 min |
| Sep 16, 2:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clarke, Jackson, Oconee | 34 min |
| Sep 16, 2:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 32 min |
| Sep 16, 2:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 33 min |
| Sep 16, 2:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Coweta | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 2:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Spalding | 34 min |
| Sep 16, 2:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Carroll | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 31 min |
| Sep 16, 3:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Douglas, Haralson, Paulding | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 31 min |
| Sep 16, 3:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pike, Upson | 25 min |
| Sep 16, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Monroe | 36 min |
| Sep 16, 3:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Fulton | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford, Upson | 35 min |
| Sep 16, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Spalding | 30 min |
| Sep 16, 4:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 24 min |
| Sep 16, 4:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Spalding | 33 min |
| Sep 16, 4:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 35 min |
| Sep 16, 5:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Henry, Lamar, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb, Monroe | 36 min |
| Sep 16, 5:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 6:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 6:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Pickens | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 7:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 18 hr |
| Sep 16, 7:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 7:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 7:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Catoosa, Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer and 8 more | 6 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.