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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at May 23, 2018, 6:57 AM EDT for Talbot County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr. 1 report 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 23, 2018, 6:57 AM EDT (10:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2018, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Talbot County, GA, Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 23, 11:00 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Wnw Hannahs Mill, GA | TENMILE CREEK NEAR HANNAHS MILL HAS RISEN OUT OF ITS BANKS AND HAS BEGUN TO INUNDATE THE BASEMENTS OF HOMES ALONG WILLIAMS WAY RD |
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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
342
WGUS52 KFFC 231057
FFWFFC
GAC263-293-231700-
/O.NEW.KFFC.FF.W.0009.180523T1057Z-180523T1700Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
657 AM EDT WED MAY 23 2018
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northwestern Upson County in west central Georgia...
North central Talbot County in west central Georgia...
* Until 100 PM EDT Wednesday.
* At 657 AM EDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain across the
warned area. Two to three inches of rain has already fallen. Flash
flooding is expected to begin shortly.
* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Thomaston, Sunset Village, Lincoln Park, The Rock, Sprewell Bluff
State Park, Crest, Sunnyside, Atwater and Hannahs Mill.
Additional rainfall amounts of one to two inches are possible in the
warned area.
LAT...LON 3287 8453 3288 8451 3291 8451 3299 8449
3299 8421 3279 8430 3278 8437 3279 8439
3281 8440 3282 8454
$$1 follow-up statement
735
WGUS72 KFFC 231653
FFSFFC
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
1253 PM EDT WED MAY 23 2018
GAC263-293-231701-
/O.EXP.KFFC.FF.W.0009.000000T0000Z-180523T1700Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
Upson GA-Talbot GA-
1253 PM EDT WED MAY 23 2018
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN UPSON AND NORTH CENTRAL
TALBOT COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 100 PM EDT...
The heavy rain has ended. Flood waters have begun to recede. Flooding
is no longer expected to pose a threat. Additional rainfall amounts
are possible this afternoon and evening and over the next several
days.
LAT...LON 3287 8453 3288 8451 3291 8451 3299 8449
3299 8421 3279 8430 3278 8437 3279 8439
3281 8440 3282 8454
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 12:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 36 min |
| May 23, 1:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 37 min |
| May 23, 2:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 6 hr |
| May 23, 3:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 35 min |
| May 23, 3:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 27 min |
| May 23, 4:22 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 23 min |
| May 23, 4:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 37 min |
| May 23, 5:17 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Talbot | 9 hr |
| May 23, 5:37 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 10 hr |
| May 23, 6:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee, Talbot | 8 hr |
| May 23, 7:27 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 7 hr |
| May 23, 8:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Schley, Taylor | 62 min |
| May 23, 8:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Jackson, Madison | 55 min |
| May 23, 9:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Talbot, Taylor | 6 hr |
| May 23, 10:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Schley | 67 min |
| May 23, 10:33 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Crawford, Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 42 hr |
| May 23, 10:39 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 2 hr |
| May 23, 11:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion, Schley, Stewart, Webster | 48 min |
| May 23, 12:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 51 min |
| May 23, 1:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Washington | 52 min |
| May 23, 2:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp and 34 more | 20 hr |
| May 23, 2:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 43 min |
| May 23, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe | 43 min |
| May 23, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 48 min |
| May 23, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 31 min |
| May 23, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 26 min |
| May 23, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro | 31 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.