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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Atlanta, GA

February 6, 202012 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 6, 2020, 3:10 PM EST for 12 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr. 9 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: Feb 6, 2020, 3:10 PM EST (20:10 UTC)
Expired: Feb 6, 2020, 9:15 PM EST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Macon County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Peach County, GA, Putnam County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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
Feb 6, 3:13 PM EST	FLOOD	3 E Resseaus Crossroads, GA	ROAD CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING AT LAKE SINCLAIR NEAR TWIN BRIDGES ROAD.
Feb 6, 3:13 PM EST	FLASH FLOOD	1 E Eatonton, GA	MULTIPLE ROADS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER BETWEEN EATONTON AND LAKE OCONEE.
Feb 6, 4:00 PM EST	FLASH FLOOD	2 Wnw Monticello, GA	RECIEVED MULTIPLE REPORTS OF ROADS CLOSED AROUND JASPER COUNTY.
Feb 6, 4:30 PM EST	FLASH FLOOD	3 Sse Harmony, GA	WATER RUNNING OVER THE ROADWAY ON LOWER HARMONY ROAD NEAR HARMONY ROAD.
Feb 6, 4:49 PM EST	FLASH FLOOD	3 Nnw Rockville, GA	WEST RIVER BEND ROAD IS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER .
Feb 6, 4:49 PM EST	FLASH FLOOD	3 W Plant Harlee Branch, GA	BLUE GILL ROAD IS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
Feb 6, 4:49 PM EST	FLASH FLOOD	3 W Plant Harlee Branch, GA	MCDADE ROAD IS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
Feb 6, 5:30 PM EST	FLASH FLOOD	Hardwick, GA	WATER COVERED THE ROADWAY ON SOUTH WARREN STREET AT UNDERWOOD ROAD AS WELL AS VINSON HIGHWAY AT SOUTH WAYNE STREET.
Feb 6, 5:45 PM EST	FLASH FLOOD	2 Nne Milledgeville, GA	WATER COVERED BARROWS FERRY ROAD AT TOBLER CREEK BRIDGE.

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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 84 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 732 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 391 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 5.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

359 
WGUS52 KFFC 062010
FFWFFC
GAC009-021-079-133-141-159-169-193-211-217-225-237-070215-
/O.NEW.KFFC.FF.W.0013.200206T2010Z-200207T0215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
310 PM EST Thu Feb 6 2020

The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Macon County in west central Georgia...
  Baldwin County in central Georgia...
  Bibb County in central Georgia...
  Morgan County in north central Georgia...
  Putnam County in central Georgia...
  Hancock County in east central Georgia...
  Peach County in central Georgia...
  Greene County in east central Georgia...
  Crawford County in central Georgia...
  Jones County in central Georgia...
  Jasper County in central Georgia...
  Newton County in north central Georgia...

* Until 915 PM EST Thursday.

* At 308 PM EST, law enforcement and Emergency Management in several 
  districts have reported flash flooding and road closures across 
  the warned area. Up to two inches of rain have already fallen and 
  an additional one to two inches is possible. River, creek, and 
  small stream flooding will continue well after rain has ended.

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
  Macon, Milledgeville, Conyers, Perry, Covington, Fort Valley,
  Eatonton, Madison, Greensboro, Gray, Monticello, Sparta,
  Oglethorpe, Roberta, Warner Robins, Centerville, Byron, Montezuma,
  Oxford and Gordon.

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.

A Flash Flood Warning means that flooding is imminent or occurring.
If you are in the warned area move to higher ground immediately.
Residents living along streams and creeks should take immediate
precautions to protect life and property.

&&

LAT...LON 3219 8413 3223 8422 3240 8425 3253 8400
      3269 8420 3285 8412 3296 8371 3352 8405
      3352 8404 3374 8391 3360 8368 3382 8350
      3370 8340 3368 8297 3347 8301 3343 8283
      3325 8275 3295 8309 3285 8351 3230 8385

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 5, 9:40 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Meriwether	50 min
Feb 5, 9:54 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker	51 min
Feb 6, 2:34 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga, Walker	41 min
Feb 6, 3:09 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield	51 min
Feb 6, 4:43 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	32 min
Feb 6, 4:49 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Walker, Whitfield	41 min
Feb 6, 5:05 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield	55 min
Feb 6, 5:07 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Floyd, Polk	23 min
Feb 6, 5:26 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Pickens	49 min
Feb 6, 5:55 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson, Pickens	35 min
Feb 6, 6:02 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin, Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White	58 min
Feb 6, 6:04 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	53 hr
Feb 6, 6:05 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Haralson, Paulding, Polk	40 min
Feb 6, 6:11 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Whitfield	4 days
Feb 6, 6:27 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding	33 min
Feb 6, 6:38 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Pickens	82 min
Feb 6, 6:40 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Cobb, Douglas, Fulton	80 min
Feb 6, 6:47 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding	28 min
Feb 6, 7:09 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas	36 min
Feb 6, 7:16 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	51 hr
Feb 6, 7:20 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth, Lumpkin	40 min
Feb 6, 7:28 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Murray and 2 more	6 hr
Feb 6, 7:39 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FFC	Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon and 3 more	6 hr
Feb 6, 7:42 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett	33 min
Feb 6, 7:50 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Towns, Union	6 hr
Feb 6, 7:50 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Towns, Union	6 hr
Feb 6, 7:51 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	10 hr
Feb 6, 7:51 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	12 hr
Feb 6, 7:53 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson, Paulding	37 min
Feb 6, 7:54 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Barrow, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson	96 min
Feb 6, 8:02 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas and 9 more	6 hr
Feb 6, 8:12 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Dawson, Forsyth, Hall, Jackson and 2 more	6 hr
Feb 6, 8:16 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson	29 min
Feb 6, 8:35 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, Forsyth	25 min
Feb 6, 8:42 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	10 hr
Feb 6, 8:49 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll	26 min
Feb 6, 8:51 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth, Lumpkin	24 min
Feb 6, 9:12 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Whitfield	5 hr
Feb 6, 9:23 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Catoosa	55 hr
Feb 6, 9:23 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gordon, Murray, Whitfield	10 days
Feb 6, 9:23 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Chattooga	32 hr
Feb 6, 9:23 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Floyd, Gordon	11 days
Feb 6, 9:23 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb, Douglas, Forsyth, Fulton, Heard	37 min
Feb 6, 9:29 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth	23 hr
Feb 6, 9:37 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth	23 hr
Feb 6, 9:37 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Madison, Oconee	38 min
Feb 6, 9:44 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Clarke, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe	31 min
Feb 6, 9:55 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Catoosa	25 hr
Feb 6, 9:55 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gilmer	4 hr
Feb 6, 9:55 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gilmer	8 hr
Feb 6, 9:58 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Barrow, Jackson, Walton	32 min
Feb 6, 10:17 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Fayette, Rockdale	28 min
Feb 6, 10:36 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Madison	9 min
Feb 6, 10:37 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Cobb	21 days
Feb 6, 10:41 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Polk	21 days
Feb 6, 10:49 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett, Walton	16 hr
Feb 6, 10:53 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Cobb	21 days
Feb 6, 11:11 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Walker	21 days
Feb 6, 11:20 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dawson	19 hr
Feb 6, 11:23 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding, Troup	52 min
Feb 6, 11:56 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Meriwether, Muscogee, Troup	34 min
Feb 6, 11:57 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	24 hr
Feb 6, 12:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	27 min
Feb 6, 12:05 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb	9 hr
Feb 6, 12:08 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jasper, Morgan	37 min
Feb 6, 12:13 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Banks	21 days
Feb 6, 12:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Harris, Marion, Meriwether, Muscogee, Pike and 3 more	35 min
Feb 6, 12:26 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	3 hr
Feb 6, 12:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Stewart, Webster	26 min
Feb 6, 12:35 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Putnam	25 min
Feb 6, 12:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Putnam	24 min
Feb 6, 12:45 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes	30 min
Feb 6, 12:49 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	10 hr
Feb 6, 12:49 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly, Houston, Macon, Sumter	26 min
Feb 6, 12:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe, Pike, Spalding	26 min
Feb 6, 12:53 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Monroe	37 min
Feb 6, 12:55 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Greene, Putnam	35 min
Feb 6, 12:56 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	21 days
Feb 6, 1:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Talbot, Taylor	30 min
Feb 6, 1:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington, Wilkinson	23 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.