Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2013
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 2013, 2:46 AM EDT for Dawson County, Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr. 4 reports 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
- May 19, 2013, 2:46 AM EDT (06:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2013, 8:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Dawson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 5:00 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 Ese Dawsonville, GA | THE USGS STREAM GAGE ON THE ETOWAH RIVER REACHED FLOOD STAGE OF 13 FEET. THE RIVER CREST AT 15.9 FEET. MODERATE FLOODING OCCURRED WITH SEVERAL ROAD CLOSURES. |
| May 19, 7:00 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Dawsonville, GA | ETOWAH RIVER ROAD WAS COMPLETELY WASHED OUT WHERE THE DIRT PORTION OF IT PARALLELS THE RIVER. THE ROAD IS EXPECTED TO BE CLOSED FOR THE NEXT 2 WEEKS FOR REPAIRS. |
| May 19, 7:55 AM EDT | FLOOD | 3 S Dawsonville, GA | FLOODING REPORTED AT A PARK OFF HIGHWAY 9...3 MILES SOUTH OF DAWSONVILLE. REPORT FROM WAGA VIA DAWSON COUNTY SHERIFF. |
| May 19, 8:30 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 Sse Lumpkin, GA | A MUDSLIDE OCCURRED ON GEORGIA HIGHWAY 53 NEAR WAR HILL PARK ROAD. TWO FEET OF MUD COVERED ONE LANE WITH ONLY ONE LANE PASSABLE. PER 911 CENTER THE ROAD HAS BEEN CLEARED AS OF 10 AM. THIS REPORT WAS PROVIDED BY AC AT WAGA TV. |
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 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
444
WGUS52 KFFC 190646
FFWFFC
GAC085-191245-
/O.NEW.KFFC.FF.W.0004.130519T0646Z-130519T1245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
246 AM EDT SUN MAY 19 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 845 AM EDT
* AT 243 AM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING
FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
DAWSONVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...AS WELL AS HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES.
ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF
CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
IF YOU SEE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. YOU CAN ALSO TWEET YOUR REPORT
USING HASHTAG GAWX.
&&
LAT...LON 3444 8405 3442 8398 3441 8397 3439 8398
3435 8398 3434 8396 3433 8396 3433 8412
3447 8412
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 10:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 45 min |
| May 18, 11:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 47 min |
| May 19, 1:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 49 min |
| May 19, 2:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett | 35 min |
| May 19, 2:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 33 min |
| May 19, 2:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 47 min |
| May 19, 3:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 31 min |
| May 19, 3:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Hall | 6 hr |
| May 19, 4:22 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 38 min |
| May 19, 4:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson | 48 min |
| May 19, 4:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Barrow, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Jackson | 6 hr |
| May 19, 4:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Jackson | 40 min |
| May 19, 5:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Walton | 47 min |
| May 19, 6:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Newton, Oconee, Rockdale and 1 more | 54 min |
| May 19, 6:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 89 min |
| May 19, 6:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 6 hr |
| May 19, 6:55 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan | 50 min |
| May 19, 7:32 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 4 hr |
| May 19, 7:32 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 4 hr |
| May 19, 7:32 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 18 hr |
| May 19, 7:32 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 19 hr |
| May 19, 7:32 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 46 hr |
| May 19, 7:32 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 24 hr |
| May 19, 7:32 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 4 hr |
| May 19, 7:38 AM EDT | Flood Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 62 more | 12 hr |
| May 19, 8:01 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 13 hr |
| May 19, 8:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 29 min |
| May 19, 8:36 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Dawson | 6 hr |
| May 19, 8:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Walker | 6 hr |
| May 19, 8:52 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan, Putnam | 23 min |
| May 19, 8:55 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren | 35 min |
| May 19, 8:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 48 min |
| May 19, 9:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 26 min |
| May 19, 9:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Putnam | 29 min |
| May 19, 9:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 6 hr |
| May 19, 9:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon | 30 min |
| May 19, 9:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 6 hr |
| May 19, 9:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Putnam | 24 min |
| May 19, 10:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Chattooga, Cobb, Floyd, Gordon | 42 min |
| May 19, 10:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Washington | 24 min |
| May 19, 10:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd | 6 hr |
| May 19, 10:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 6 hr |
| May 19, 11:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 36 min |
| May 19, 11:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, Douglas, Paulding | 50 min |
| May 19, 11:32 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Fulton, Gwinnett | 5 hr |
| May 19, 11:32 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 5 hr |
| May 19, 11:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 65 min |
| May 19, 11:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton, Haralson | 6 hr |
| May 19, 12:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Fulton | 42 min |
| May 19, 12:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 37 min |
| May 19, 12:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Heard | 30 min |
| May 19, 12:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Fulton, Heard, Henry and 4 more | 39 min |
| May 19, 1:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 24 min |
| May 19, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Talbot, Upson | 49 min |
| May 19, 1:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 27 min |
| May 19, 1:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 6 hr |
| May 19, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Monroe, Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 37 min |
| May 19, 1:54 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Fulton | 7 hr |
| May 19, 1:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 49 min |
| May 19, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Macon, Marion, Peach and 3 more | 46 min |
| May 19, 2:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Walker | 9 hr |
| May 19, 3:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 6 hr |
| May 19, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Macon, Peach | 42 min |
| May 19, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 48 min |
| May 19, 3:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 6 hr |
| May 19, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Pulaski, Wilcox | 45 min |
| May 19, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade, Walker | 51 min |
| May 19, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 54 min |
| May 19, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, Paulding, Polk | 53 min |
| May 19, 5:40 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dade | 13 hr |
| May 19, 6:51 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 6 days |
| May 19, 6:51 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 21 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.