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Flash Flood Warning 84, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 2013, 12:37 PM EDT for Dodge County, Laurens County, Treutlen 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 2013, 12:37 PM EDT (16:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2013, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Dodge County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Treutlen County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:38 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
819
WGUS52 KFFC 151637
FFWFFC
GAC091-175-283-152230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.FF.W.0084.130815T1637Z-130815T2230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1237 PM EDT THU AUG 15 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHERN LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
WESTERN TREUTLEN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT
* AT 1224 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
HEAVY RAINFALL AND POTENTIAL FLASH FLOODING FROM A SERIES OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA. ESTIMATED RAINFALL
TOTALS OF 3 TO 4 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED SINCE 10 AM AND AN
ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES IS POSSIBLE THROUGH MID AFTERNOON.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO EASTMAN...
CHESTER...RENTZ...DEXTER...CADWELL AND DUBLIN.
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.
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. YOU CAN ALSO TWEET YOUR REPORT
USING HASHTAG GAWX.
&&
LAT...LON 3208 8331 3216 8332 3218 8330 3220 8333
3228 8334 3232 8328 3234 8330 3262 8269
3262 8267 3259 8266 3252 8268 3251 8264
3238 8259
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 8:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 49 min |
| Aug 14, 9:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Laurens | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 9:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson, Johnson | 40 min |
| Aug 14, 9:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 41 min |
| Aug 14, 9:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 52 min |
| Aug 15, 5:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 57 min |
| Aug 15, 6:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 59 min |
| Aug 15, 10:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 2 hr |
| Aug 15, 10:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam | 6 hr |
| Aug 15, 2:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Sumter, Wilcox | 42 min |
| Aug 15, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 94 min |
| Aug 15, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 96 min |
| Aug 15, 3:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 82 more | 4 days |
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.