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Areal Flood Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this areal flood warning at May 30, 2018, 1:01 PM EDT for Towns County, White 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
- May 30, 2018, 1:01 PM EDT (17:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2018, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Towns County, GA, White County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 931 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 May 30, 10:39 AM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 10:39 AM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 5:00 AM EDT, 8 hours 1 minute before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Peachtree City GA 500 AM EDT Wed May 30 2018 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-311000- Dade-Walker-Catoosa-Whitfield-Murray-Fannin-Gilmer-Union-Towns- Chattooga-Gordon-Pickens-Dawson-Lumpkin-White-Floyd-Bartow- Cherokee-Forsyth-Hall-Banks-Jackson-Madison-Polk-Paulding-Cobb- North Fulton-Gwinnett-Barrow-Clarke-Oconee-Oglethorpe-Wilkes- Haralson-Carroll-Douglas-South Fulton-DeKalb-Rockdale-Walton- Newton-Morgan-Greene-Taliaferro-Heard-Coweta-Fayette-Clayton- Spalding-Henry-Butts-Jasper-Putnam-Hancock-Warren-Troup- Meriwether-Pike-Upson-Lamar-Monroe-Jones-Baldwin-Washington- Glascock-Jefferson-Harris-Talbot-Taylor-Crawford-Bibb-Twiggs- Wilkinson-Johnson-Emanuel-Muscogee-Chattahoochee-Marion-Schley- Macon-Peach-Houston-Bleckley-Laurens-Treutlen-Stewart-Webster- Sumter-Dooly-Crisp-Pulaski-Wilcox-Dodge-Telfair-Wheeler- Montgomery-Toombs- 500 AM EDT Wed May 30 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of North and Central Georgia. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight... Numerous showers and scattered thunderstorms can be expected today into tonight. A few storms could be strong with gusty winds, frequent lightning and locally heavy rainfall. A Flash Flood Watch remains in effect for north Georgia from Floyd to Hall county and north. Refer to the Flash Flood Watch /ATLFFAFFC/ on the web for more information. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday... Scattered to numerous thunderstorms can be expected Wednesday through Sunday with scattered thunderstorms Monday and Tuesday. Most storms will favor the afternoon and evening hours. On any given day, a few storms could be strong with gusty winds, frequent lightning and locally heavy rainfall. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed at this time, but spotters are encouraged to submit reports of any severe or significant weather and flooding through the web by going to weather.gov/atlanta.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 45 min |
| May 29, 9:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Walker | 57 min |
| May 29, 9:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 42 min |
| May 29, 9:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 2 hr |
| May 29, 11:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns, White | 50 min |
| May 29, 11:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Towns, White | 13 hr |
| May 30, 12:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 43 min |
| May 30, 1:07 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Towns | 7 hr |
| May 30, 1:32 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | White | 4 hr |
| May 30, 2:23 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 4 hr |
| May 30, 2:33 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Towns | 24 hr |
| May 30, 9:31 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 11 hr |
| May 30, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 35 min |
| May 30, 6:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 23 min |
| May 30, 6:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Madison | 51 min |
| May 30, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 34 min |
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.