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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 4, 2022, 9:26 AM EDT for Chattooga County, Floyd 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
- Sep 4, 2022, 9:26 AM EDT (13:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2022, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Chattooga County, GA, Floyd County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:30 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 868 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
244
WGUS52 KFFC 041326
FFWFFC
GAC055-115-041930-
/O.NEW.KFFC.FF.W.0034.220904T1326Z-220904T1930Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
926 AM EDT Sun Sep 4 2022
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Southern Chattooga County in northwestern Georgia...
Southwestern Floyd County in northwestern Georgia...
* Until 330 PM EDT Sunday.
* At 926 AM EDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 2 and 4 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.
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...
Rome and Coosa.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 3430 8547 3432 8544 3432 8530 3436 8521
3416 8523 3415 8544
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 4:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 18 hr |
| Sep 4, 6:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 16 hr |
| Sep 4, 8:58 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 24 hr |
| Sep 4, 10:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd | 6 hr |
| Sep 4, 1:03 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd | 12 hr |
| Sep 4, 2:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 3:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 6 hr |
| Sep 4, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 60 min |
| Sep 4, 5:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Troup | 6 hr |
| Sep 4, 6:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Muscogee | 6 hr |
| Sep 4, 6:49 PM EDT | Flood Watch | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 43 more | 25 hr |
| Sep 4, 7:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Sumter, Webster | 6 hr |
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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.