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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 12, 2005Towns County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 2005, 2:45 PM EDT for Towns 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 12, 2005, 2:45 PM EDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2005, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Towns County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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
Jun 12, 3:30 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	5 Sse Hiawassee, GA	THE HIAWASSEE RIVER FLOODED A BARN AND THE ENCHANTED VALLEY RESORT. MANY RESIDENTS WERE EVACUATED FROM THE RESORT AND VARIOUS FISHING CABINS ALONG THE RIVER NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE RESORT.

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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 394 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS52 KFFC 121848
FFWFFC
GAC281-122145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
245 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  TOWNS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 235 PM EDT...EMERGENCY MANANGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED RAPIDLY
RISING WATER IN THE HIAWASSEE RIVER WHICH IS CAUSING CAMPERS NEAR
THE RIVER TO SEEK HIGHER GROUND. ADDITIONAL RAIN FROM SHOWERS AND A 
FEW THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE THE 
HIAWASSEE RIVER TO COME OUT OF ITS BANKS AND FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS.

PERSONS ALONG THE VARIOUS CREEKS IN TOWNS COUNTY AND ALONG THE
HIAWASSEE RIVER...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE ENCHANTED VALLEY RESORT AND 
THE PASTURE STORE OFF OF HWY. 75 SHOULD MONITOR THIS SITUATION
CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO EVACUATE IF NECESSARY. 

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 3498 8357 3479 8369 3480 8381 3498 8388

IF YOU SEE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.

$$

KDF

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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.