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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 4, 2021, 1:24 PM EDT for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 6 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
- Oct 4, 2021, 1:24 PM EDT (17:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2021, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Muscogee County, GA
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 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 4, 1:30 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Ese Rose Hill, GA | EM STATED THAT WRVL HAD FOOTAGE OF WATER SPILLING OVER FROM WERACOBA CREEK IN LAKEBOTTOM PARK. |
| Oct 4, 1:30 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Wnw Benning Park, GA | FLOODING ALONG BULL CREEK IS BEGINNING TO SURROUND NUMEROUS APARTMENT HOMES WITH A FEW INCHES OF WATER. |
| Oct 4, 2:25 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Se Avondale, GA | APPROX 1 FOOT OF WATER FLOWING OVER CUSSETTA RD NEAR BROWN AVE. |
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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
353
WGUS52 KFFC 041724
FFWFFC
GAC215-042330-
/O.NEW.KFFC.FF.W.0037.211004T1724Z-211004T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
124 PM EDT Mon Oct 4 2021
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Muscogee County in west central Georgia...
* Until 730 PM EDT Monday.
* At 124 PM EDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated
thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between
1 and 3 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of
1 to 2 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is
ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar and automated gauges.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Columbus, North Fort Benning, Upatoi, Bibb City, Vista Terrace,
Kenwood, Edgewood, Sand Hill, Saint Marys Hills, Highland Park,
Benning Hills, Benning Park, Avondale, Custer Road Terrace, Rose
Hill, Carter Acres and Battle Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 3250 8499 3253 8483 3256 8480 3258 8479
3258 8469 3256 8470 3256 8467 3252 8469
3251 8472 3245 8476 3242 8479 3241 8487
3237 8496 3238 8499 3239 8499 3239 8497
3241 8498 3242 8496 3244 8497 3245 8500
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR AND GAUGE INDICATED
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 11:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Muscogee, Talbot | 44 min |
| Oct 4, 11:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 4 days |
| Oct 4, 11:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 44 min |
| Oct 4, 12:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 6 hr |
| Oct 4, 12:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 44 min |
| Oct 4, 4:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall | 4 hr |
| Oct 4, 6:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 24 min |
Nearby
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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.