Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 2005, 1:39 AM EDT for Banks County, Georgia. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report 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
- Jun 8, 2005, 1:39 AM EDT (05:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2005, 4:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Banks County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2:30 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 7 N Homer, GA | EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED FLASH AND COUNTY FLOODING. AN EARTHEN BRIDGE ON DALTON ROAD AT MOUNTAIN CREEK WAS WASHED OUT AND IS CLOSED. MOSS MILL ROAD...GRAVEL...WAS COMPLETELY COVERED BY LITTLE NAILS CREEK COMING OUT OF ITS BANKS. |
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 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1353 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 080541 FFWFFC GAC011-080845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 139 AM EDT WED JUN 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 445 AM EDT * AT 136 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOMER...OR NEAR COMMERCE...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL REMAIN OVER SOUTHERN BANKS COUNTY THROUGH 230 AM. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...ESPECIALLY BEAVER DAM CREEK...GROVE CREEK...AND BLACK CREEK. ALSO...FLOODING OF COUNTRY ROADS IS LIKELY...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3416 8351 3417 8330 3529 8318 3527 8373 IF YOU SEE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KFFC 080625 FFSFFC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 220 AM EDT WED JUN 8 2005 GAC011-080845- BANKS- 220 AM EDT WED JUN 8 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 445 AM EDT FOR BANKS COUNTY... AT 213 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER BANKS COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN IN PARTS OF BANKS COUNTY WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN LIKELY THROUGH 4 AM. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...ESPECIALLY GROVE CREEK...BEAVER DAM CREEK...BLACK CREEK...LITTLE NAILS CREEK...GARRISON CREEK...AND WHITEHOUSE CREEK. ALSO...FLOODING IS LIKELY OF SOME COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. IF YOU SEE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3416 8351 3417 8330 3529 8318 3528 8373 $$
000 WGUS72 KFFC 080718 FFSFFC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 311 AM EDT WED JUN 8 2005 GAC011-080845- BANKS- 311 AM EDT WED JUN 8 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 445 AM EDT FOR BANKS COUNTY... AT 305 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAVE MOVED OUT OF BANKS COUNTY WITH LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS CONTINUING. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH IS EXPECTED THROUGH 4 AM. RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 445 AM... WHICH WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...ESPECIALLY GROVE CREEK...BEAVER DAM CREEK...BLACK CREEK...LITTLE NAILS CREEK...GARRISON CREEK...AND WHITEHOUSE CREEK. ALSO...FLOODING IS LIKELY OF SOME ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. IF YOU SEE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3425 8356 3420 8333 3446 8339 3449 8359 $$
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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.