Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2018
Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2018, 7:33 PM EDT for Houston County, Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 3 hr. 3 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
- Aug 9, 2018, 7:33 PM EDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2018, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Houston County, GA, Peach County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:45 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Wnw Bonaire, GA | ROAD CLOSURE AT COUNTY RD AND 3RD ST IN BONAIRE. THE FLOODING HAS SINCE CLEARED. |
| Aug 9, 9:00 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Ese Houston Lake, GA | ROAD CLOSURE ALONG BEAR BRANCH RD DUE TO HIGH STANDING WATER. |
| Aug 9, 9:00 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Wnw Bonaire, GA | ROAD CLOSURE ALONG COUNTRY RD FOR NEARLY 2 HOURS DUE TO HIGH STANDING WATER. |
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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
321
WGUS52 KFFC 092333
FFWFFC
GAC153-225-100230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.FF.W.0040.180809T2333Z-180810T0230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
733 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2018
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Peach County in central Georgia...
Central Houston County in central Georgia...
* Until 1030 PM EDT.
* At 733 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Over two inches of rain have
already fallen with additional heavy rainfall occurring. Flash
flooding is expected to begin shortly.
* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Perry, Fort Valley, Warner Robins, Hayneville, Meadowdale, Sand
Bed, Houston Lake, Grovania, Grove Park, Lakewood, Moss Oak,
Bonaire, Miami Valley, Kathleen and Clinchfield.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Please report flooding to your local law enforcement agency when you
can do so safely.
&&
LAT...LON 3237 8374 3249 8388 3250 8392 3249 8393
3251 8392 3252 8401 3256 8396 3255 8395
3259 8393 3261 8389 3257 8355 3253 8354
3250 8351 3242 8348 3239 8351 3240 8352
3235 8357
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 8:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 8:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 25 min |
| Aug 8, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones, Monroe | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 8:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 8:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 25 min |
| Aug 8, 8:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 8:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 23 min |
| Aug 8, 9:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Aug 8, 9:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 25 min |
| Aug 8, 9:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 9:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 29 min |
| Aug 8, 9:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin | 26 min |
| Aug 8, 9:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Peach | 25 min |
| Aug 8, 9:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 9:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 9:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 17 min |
| Aug 8, 10:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 10:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 10:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Harris, Henry, Meriwether, Pike and 2 more | 48 min |
| Aug 8, 10:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 10:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 10:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 10:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 11:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Jones | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 11:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 12:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 12:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 12:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 1:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 1:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 1:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 1:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 1:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 1:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 2:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 29 min |
| Aug 9, 2:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 23 min |
| Aug 9, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Washington, Wilkinson | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 2:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Polk | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Pulaski | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 3:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Newton | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wheeler | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Rockdale | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 29 min |
| Aug 9, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, Coweta, Douglas, Heard, Paulding | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Pickens | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones, Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Fulton | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 35 min |
| Aug 9, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 4:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Monroe | 51 min |
| Aug 9, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Rockdale | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jenkins | 29 min |
| Aug 9, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 5:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 6:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 29 min |
| Aug 9, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Peach, Pulaski | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 6:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Madison | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 6:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon, Marion, Schley, Taylor | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 7:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Dooly, Houston, Pulaski | 52 min |
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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.