Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 27, 2004, 10:17 PM EDT for Cobb County, Georgia. It was in force for 4 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
- Sep 27, 2004, 10:17 PM EDT (02:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 2004, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cobb County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:20 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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 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 280220
FFWATL
GAC067-280600-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1017 PM EDT MON SEP 27 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOPE CREEK IN...
COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 200 AM EDT
* NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL INCHES OF
RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER SOPE CREEK IN THE LAST 6 TO 8 HOURS.
* FOR THE SOPE CREEK NEAR MARIETTA...
MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
THE LATEST STAGE WAS 11.3 FEET AT 9 PM MONDAY.
FLOOD STAGE IS 12.0 FEET.
THE FORECAST FOR THE SOPE CREEK NEAR MARIETTA...
THE CREEK WILL RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE AROUND 11 PM MONDAY.
THE CREEK WILL CREST NEAR 13 FEET AROUND 1 AM TUESDAY.
THE CREEK WILL FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE AROUND 2 AM TUESDAY.
FLOODING OF SOME YARDS IS LIKELY NEAR THE CREEK.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE 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
SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER
SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGH GROUND.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OF STREAMS...
CREEKS...AND ROADS IS EXPECTED. THIS MAY CAUSE SOME MODERATE TO MAJOR
INCONVENIENCES TO THE PUBLIC...AND PROPERTY DAMAGE OR THREAT TO LIFE
IS ELEVATED.
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 8456 3388 8449 3398 8438 3404 8443
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 8:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 6 hr |
| Sep 27, 9:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.