Alert archive / Georgia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2019
Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 19, 2019, 7:37 PM EDT for 4 counties in 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
- Oct 19, 2019, 7:37 PM EDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 20, 2019, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Wilcox County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 8:00 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 3 N Tremont, GA | EM REPORTS STANDING WATER AND FLOODING OVER A LARGE NUMBER OF ROADWAYS IN THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF DOOLY COUNTY. |
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 157 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
230
WGUS52 KFFC 192337
FFWFFC
GAC081-093-235-315-200530-
/O.NEW.KFFC.FF.W.0033.191019T2337Z-191020T0530Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
737 PM EDT Sat Oct 19 2019
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Pulaski County in central Georgia...
Northwestern Wilcox County in central Georgia...
Eastern Dooly County in central Georgia...
Northeastern Crisp County in central Georgia...
* Until 130 AM EDT.
* At 736 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Up to three inches of rain have
already fallen. Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly.
* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Hawkinsville, Vienna, Abbeville, Pineview, Pinehurst, Browndale,
Richwood, Cedar Creek, Mock Springs, Pope City, Finleyson, Wallace,
Pleasant View, Tippettville, Tremont and Hartford.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
&&
LAT...LON 3199 8370 3203 8385 3211 8385 3229 8363
3229 8362 3232 8359 3239 8350 3198 8330
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly | 43 min |
| Oct 19, 6:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 47 min |
| Oct 19, 7:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 37 min |
| Oct 19, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Pulaski, Wilcox | 47 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.