Alert archive / Georgia / Flood Watches in 2022
Flood Watch 3, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flood watch at Feb 21, 2022, 2:31 PM EST for 7 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Feb 22, 2022, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 2022, 2:31 PM EST (19:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 22, 2022, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2022, 9:54 AM EST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Catoosa County, GA, Dade County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Murray County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 1490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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.