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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 24, 2006Bibb County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 24, 2006, 3:41 PM EDT for Bibb County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 min. 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: Aug 24, 2006, 3:41 PM EDT (19:41 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 2006, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bibb County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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
Aug 24, 3:45 PM EDT	FLOOD	Macon, GA	NUMEROUS REPORTS OF STREET FLOODING THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF MACON BETWEEN 345 PM AND 415 PM EDT.

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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 1305 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS52 KFFC 241945
FFWFFC
GAC021-242045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
341 PM EDT THU AUG 24 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 338 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE CITY OF MACON. FLASH FLOODING FROM 
  THIS THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED IN THE CITY OF MACON AND ADJACENT AREAS
  OF BIBB COUNTY.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MACON AND 
  CROSS KEYS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS INCLUDING WOLF CREEK. FLOODING IS ALSO EXPECTED
ON HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND IN UNDERPASSES IN THE CITY OF MACON...AS 
WELL AS IN AREAS THAT USUALLY EXPERIENCE POOR DRAINAGE. 

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. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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

LAT...LON 3276 8373 3278 8354 3285 8353 3290 8374

$$

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.