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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 27, 2005, 3:18 PM EST for Meriwether County, Troup 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
- Mar 27, 2005, 3:18 PM EST (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2005, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Meriwether County, GA, Troup County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 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 272020
FFWFFC
GAC199-285-272315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
318 PM EST SUN MAR 27 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
TROUP COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 615 PM EST
* AT 313 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING FROM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING THROUGH THESE TWO COUNTIES.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
WOODBURY...WEST POINT...MANCHESTER...LUTHERSVILLE AND LAGRANGE.
THIS AREA HAS RECEIVED OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE PAST 24 HOURS
AND ANOTHER ONE TO TWO INCHES IS POSSIBLE AS A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
MOVES ACROSS MERIWETHER AND TROUP COUNTIES THROUGH 430 PM.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
LAT...LON 3287 8477 3287 8518 3312 8523 3315 8512
3318 8511 3316 8508 3322 8493 3322 8487
3318 8485 3321 8483 3321 8450 3305 8454
3287 8451 3284 8456 3284 8470
IF YOU SEE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 7:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 13 min |
| Mar 26, 7:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee | 25 min |
| Mar 26, 7:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 4:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 5:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee, Stewart | 3 hr |
| Mar 27, 5:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 37 min |
| Mar 27, 6:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Webster | 27 min |
| Mar 27, 11:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 12:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 35 min |
| Mar 27, 12:53 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Sumter | 4 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 28 min |
| Mar 27, 1:16 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs | 4 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 35 min |
| Mar 27, 1:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 1:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 1:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 36 min |
| Mar 27, 2:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 2:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 2:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 2:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 2:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Hall | 31 min |
| Mar 27, 3:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 3:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding | 45 min |
| Mar 27, 3:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 4:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 4:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Gilmer | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 4:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 4:59 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Pulaski, Sumter and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 27, 6:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Walker | 40 min |
Nearby
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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.