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Areal Flood Warning 11, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this areal flood warning at Dec 11, 2008, 5:02 PM EST for Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 6 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
- Dec 11, 2008, 5:02 PM EST (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 11, 2008, 10:52 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Jones County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Dec 11, 4:31 PM EST, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 11, 4:31 PM EST, 31 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Dec 11, 11:16 AM EST, 5 hours 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1116 AM EST THU DEC 11 2008 GAZ016-023-111645- 1116 AM EST THU DEC 11 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR 45 MPH WINDS IN NORTHERN HALL AND WHITE COUNTIES UNTIL 1145 AM EST... AT 1112 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CLERMONT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THIS STORM MOVES ACROSS NORTHERN HALL AND WHITE COUNTIES THROUGH 1145 AM EST. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE CLERMONT...CLEVELAND...LEAF...SAUTEE AND NACOOCHEE. THESE WIND GUSTS MAY PRODUCE MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND SMALL TREES...AND BLOW LIGHT...UNSECURED OBJECTS AROUND.
Special weather statement, Dec 11, 11:22 AM EST, 5 hours 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1122 AM EST THU DEC 11 2008 GAZ016-023-111645- 1122 AM EST THU DEC 11 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR 50 MPH WINDS IN HALL AND WHITE COUNTIES UNTIL 1145 AM EST... AT 1117 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CLERMONT...MOVING NORTH AT 60 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...WEATHER.GOV OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THESE STORMS.
Local storm report, Dec 11, 11:42 AM EST, 5 hours 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1142 AM EST THU DEC 11 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1042 AM TSTM WND DMG OAK PARK 32.36N 82.31W
12/11/2008 EMANUEL GA COUNTY OFFICIAL
1 TREE DOWN
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SNELSONSpecial weather statement, Dec 11, 3:51 PM EST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 10:22 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Oconee | 44 hr |
| Dec 11, 12:57 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Stewart, Sumter, Webster, Wilcox | 6 hr |
| Dec 11, 6:32 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Macon, Pulaski, Schley and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 11, 8:32 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 6 hr |
| Dec 11, 8:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Bleckley, Crawford, Dodge, Houston, Jones and 3 more | 51 min |
| Dec 11, 10:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Emanuel, Glascock, Greene, Hancock, Jackson and 10 more | 39 min |
| Dec 11, 11:00 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Twiggs | 11 hr |
| Dec 11, 11:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Dec 11, 12:39 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Dooly, Sumter | 9 hr |
| Dec 11, 12:58 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dade | 18 hr |
| Dec 11, 2:31 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 18 hr |
| Dec 11, 3:33 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer and 6 more | 5 hr |
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Areal Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2008Every areal flood warning in 2008
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.