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Areal Flood Warning 30, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this areal flood warning at Dec 25, 2015, 8:43 PM EST for Murray County, Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 12 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 25, 2015, 8:43 PM EST (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 26, 2015, 8:45 AM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Murray County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 578 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 25, 7:27 PM EST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 25, 7:27 PM EST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 205 PM EST FRI DEC 25 2015 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-261915- BALDWIN-BANKS-BARROW-BARTOW-BIBB-BLECKLEY-BUTTS-CARROLL-CATOOSA- CHATTAHOOCHEE-CHATTOOGA-CHEROKEE-CLARKE-CLAYTON-COBB-COWETA- CRAWFORD-CRISP-DADE-DAWSON-DEKALB-DODGE-DOOLY-DOUGLAS-EMANUEL- FANNIN-FAYETTE-FLOYD-FORSYTH-GILMER-GLASCOCK-GORDON-GREENE- GWINNETT-HALL-HANCOCK-HARALSON-HARRIS-HEARD-HENRY-HOUSTON-JACKSON- JASPER-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-JONES-LAMAR-LAURENS-LUMPKIN-MACON- MADISON-MARION-MERIWETHER-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-MURRAY- MUSCOGEE-NEWTON-NORTH FULTON-OCONEE-OGLETHORPE-PAULDING-PEACH- PICKENS-PIKE-POLK-PULASKI-PUTNAM-ROCKDALE-SCHLEY-SOUTH FULTON- SPALDING-STEWART-SUMTER-TALBOT-TALIAFERRO-TAYLOR-TELFAIR-TOOMBS- TOWNS-TREUTLEN-TROUP-TWIGGS-UNION-UPSON-WALKER-WALTON-WARREN- WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WHEELER-WHITE-WHITFIELD-WILCOX-WILKES- WILKINSON- 205 PM EST FRI DEC 25 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT... A PERSISTENT BAND OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM ROME CLEVELAND THROUGH THIS EVENING. ONGOING FLOODING OF RIVERS...STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL CONTINUE FROM RUNOFF AND PREVIOUSLY SATURATED SOILS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE INTO THIS EVENING...MAINLY ACROSS FAR NORTH GEORGIA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... THE MOST SIGNIFICANT RAIN WILL GRADUALLY PUSH NORTH OF THE AREA BY SATURDAY BUT THERE WILL STILL BE A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE FIRST OF THE WEEK. SEVERAL RIVERS AND STREAMS COULD REMAIN IN FLOOD THROUGH THIS WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED BUT SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE WEB BY GOING TO WEATHER.GOV/ATLANTA.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Dec 25, 7:56 PM EST, 47 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 8:30 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 12 hr |
| Dec 25, 8:31 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 39 hr |
| Dec 25, 8:57 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 12 hr |
| Dec 25, 9:04 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 12 hr |
| Dec 25, 9:22 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp and 40 more | 15 hr |
| Dec 25, 10:32 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd, Gordon | 6 hr |
| Dec 26, 6:22 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper | 24 hr |
| Dec 26, 7:08 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 24 hr |
| Dec 26, 7:35 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd | 7 days |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2015Every areal flood warning in 2015
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.