Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 21, 2006, 6:34 AM EST for Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 86 min. 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 21, 2006, 6:34 AM EST (11:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2006, 8:00 AM EST
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jones County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:33 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 520 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 739 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 211139 FFWFFC GAC169-211300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 634 AM EST TUE MAR 21 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JONES COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 800 AM EST * AT 633 AM EST...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAS OCCURRED OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS IN NORTHERN JONES COUNTY. FALLING CREEK NEAR JULIETTE IS NEAR FLOOD STAGE OF 13 FEET AND WILL SOON RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO EAST JULIETTE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL THE PAST FEW HOURS 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 3313 8380 3301 8371 3306 8339 3319 8345 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 20, 8:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 55 min |
| Mar 20, 8:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 57 min |
| Mar 20, 9:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 53 min |
| Mar 20, 9:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee | 29 min |
| Mar 20, 9:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 10:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley, Taylor | 24 min |
| Mar 20, 10:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 17 min |
| Mar 20, 10:44 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fulton, Gwinnett | 4 hr |
| Mar 21, 1:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 21 min |
| Mar 21, 2:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones, Putnam | 37 min |
| Mar 21, 3:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 18 min |
| Mar 21, 3:33 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Harris | 4 hr |
| Mar 21, 8:14 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Jones | 3 hr |
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.