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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 14, 2019, 6:17 PM EDT for Dawson County, Lumpkin 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
- Apr 14, 2019, 6:17 PM EDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2019, 12:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Dawson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted.
438
WGUS52 KFFC 142217
FFWFFC
GAC085-187-150415-
/O.NEW.KFFC.FF.W.0003.190414T2217Z-190415T0415Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
617 PM EDT Sun Apr 14 2019
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Lumpkin County in north central Georgia...
Dawson County in north central Georgia...
* Until 1215 AM EDT.
* At 615 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Two to three inches of rain
have already fallen. Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly.
Localized additional rainfall amounts of up to one inch are possible
in the warned area.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 3472 8386 3462 8388 3461 8386 3449 8386
3446 8391 3447 8393 3446 8392 3441 8398
3440 8397 3439 8398 3434 8398 3433 8416
3438 8426 3447 8426 3466 8413 3464 8404
3466 8403 3468 8399 3474 8394
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 7:33 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 42 min |
| Apr 14, 7:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 7:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 8:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 8:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Whitfield | 32 min |
| Apr 14, 9:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard, Troup | 25 min |
| Apr 14, 9:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee | 48 min |
| Apr 14, 9:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 17 min |
| Apr 14, 10:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard, Troup | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 10:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 10:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Meriwether, Muscogee, Talbot | 45 min |
| Apr 14, 10:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 10:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 48 min |
| Apr 14, 11:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Heard, Troup | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 11:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns, Union | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 11:17 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Talbot, Upson | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 11:32 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Douglas, Fulton | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 11:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Lamar, Pike, Spalding | 35 min |
| Apr 14, 11:53 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Spalding | 14 min |
| Apr 14, 11:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Dawson, DeKalb, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton and 1 more | 32 min |
| Apr 14, 12:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Newton, Rockdale, Walton | 24 min |
| Apr 14, 12:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Jackson, Newton, Oconee, Rockdale and 1 more | 42 min |
| Apr 14, 12:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Twiggs | 24 min |
| Apr 14, 12:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Taylor | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 12:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 12:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin, Towns, Union | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 12:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 12:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 12:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 12:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 12:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin, Towns, White | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 12:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly | 16 min |
| Apr 14, 1:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 1:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs, Wilcox | 50 min |
| Apr 14, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Hall, Jackson | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 1:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 1:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 32 min |
| Apr 14, 1:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 1:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 2:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 2:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 2:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Pulaski, Wilcox | 17 min |
| Apr 14, 2:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Telfair, Wheeler | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 25 min |
| Apr 14, 3:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 23 min |
| Apr 14, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 25 min |
| Apr 14, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Telfair, Wheeler | 23 min |
| Apr 14, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 16 min |
| Apr 14, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 23 min |
| Apr 14, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 4:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 12 min |
| Apr 14, 4:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 10 min |
| Apr 14, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 13 min |
| Apr 14, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Lumpkin, Towns, Union and 1 more | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 5:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 6:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin, Towns, White | 32 min |
| Apr 14, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 6:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Fulton | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 6:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 23 min |
| Apr 14, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 23 min |
| Apr 14, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett | 18 min |
| Apr 14, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 7:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jackson | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.