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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 2005, 7:25 AM EDT for Cobb County, Fayette 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2005, 7:25 AM EDT (11:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2005, 10:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cobb County, GA, Fayette County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:27 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS52 KFFC 111127
FFWFFC
GAC067-113-111430-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
725 AM EDT MON JUL 11 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
FAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1030 AM EDT
* AT 715 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING FROM HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS FROM MARIETTA THROUGH
PEACHTREE CITY TO WOODBURY...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. ADDITIONAL
RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE SHOWERS.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
WHITEWATER...VININGS...SANDY CREEK...MARIETTA...MABLETON...
KENWOOD...KENNESAW...FAYETTEVILLE...AUSTELL AND ACWORTH.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...SUCH AS MUD CREEK AND NOSES CREEK IN COBB
COUNTY...AND FLAT CREEK AND LINE CREEK IN FAYETTE COUNTY.
ADDITIONALLY...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES...COUNTRY ROADS AND
FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING
AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
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 3329 8449 3336 8456 3351 8459 3356 8451
3377 8458 3385 8467 3408 8471 3407 8442
3384 8445 3375 8458 3355 8451 3355 8444
3351 8441 3328 8442
IF YOU SEE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
$$
KDFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 118 min |
| Jul 11, 3:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 88 min |
| Jul 11, 3:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 113 min |
| Jul 11, 5:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Coweta | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 5:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 4 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.