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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 5, 2005Whitfield County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2005, 4:07 PM EDT for Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 3 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: Jul 5, 2005, 4:07 PM EDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2005, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Whitfield County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 931 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 731 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS52 KFFC 052012
FFWFFC
GAC313-052300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
407 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WHITFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 403 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF 
DALTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. AROUND 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
IN ONE HOUR IN THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ROCKY
  FACE.

FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT ON THE HOPKINS BRANCH NEAR THE 
MOUNTAIN RIDGE LINE SOUTHWEST OF DALTON. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW 
WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN 
BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID 
STREAMS OR CREEKS.

LAT...LON 3480 8510 3468 8507 3470 8495 3482 8496

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

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS72 KFFC 052153
FFSFFC

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
550 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 2005

GAC313-052200-
WHITFIELD-
550 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL WHITFIELD COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN OVER CENTRAL
WHITFIELD COUNTY EARLIER HAVE MOVED TO THE EAST AND SOUTH
OF THE PREVIOUSLY WARNED AREA.  THE WHITFIELD COUNTY EMA
DIRECTOR HAS REPORTED NO SIGNIFICANT FLOODING PROBLEMS SO
THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE CANCELLED.

IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...
WAITUNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.

LAT...LON 3480 8510 3468 8507 3470 8495 3482 8496

$$

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.