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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2005, 5:38 PM EDT for Oglethorpe County, Georgia. It was in force for 2 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
- Aug 8, 2005, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2005, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Oglethorpe County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 663 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 082141
FFWFFC
GAC221-092345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
538 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EASTERN OGLETHORPE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 745 PM EDT
* AT 531 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN
OGLETHORPE COUNTY...PARTICULARLY BETWEEN VESTA AND SANDY CROSS.
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE AREA AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WAS
DEVELOPING FURTHER SOUTH TOWARD PHILOMATH. THE GROUND IN THIS AREA
IS SATURATED AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN FLOODING
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
PHILOMATH.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. SOME CREEKS AND STREAMS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED IN THE AREA INCLUDE MACKS CREEK AND GOOSEPOND CREEK.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.
LAT...LON 3369 8297 3384 8296 3396 8280 3403 8304
3371 8305
IF YOU SEE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
$$
RAB1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS72 KFFC 082314
FFSFFC
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
713 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2005
GAC221-082345-
OGLETHORPE-
713 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR EASTERN
OGLETHORPE COUNTY...
AT 711 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT RAIN HAD DIMINISHED ACROSS EASTERN OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
HOWEVER...2-3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL ACROSS THIS PORTION OF THE COUNTY
EARLIER. CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE
COUNTY...PARTICULARLY ALONG THE WILKES COUNTY LINE...ARE NEAR OR
ABOVE BANKFULL. THIS WILL CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL HOURS UNTIL THE WATER
HAS HAD A CHANCE TO RECEDE.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO VESTA.
LAT...LON 3369 8297 3384 8296 3396 8280 3403 8304
3371 8305
$$
RABThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 3:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Banks | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Madison | 2 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.