Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 441, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 28, 2005, 2:59 PM EST for Crisp County, Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min. 2 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
- Dec 28, 2005, 2:59 PM EST (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2005, 3:45 PM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 3:15 PM EST | HAIL 1.75 | Vienna, GA | |
| Dec 28, 3:40 PM EST | HAIL 1.75 | Vienna, GA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 1:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 281958
SVRFFC
GAC081-093-282045-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0441.051228T1959Z-051228T2045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
259 PM EST WED DEC 28 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CRISP COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
DOOLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 345 PM EST
* AT 254 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF GEORGIA VETERANS STATE PARK...AND
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
VIENNA...TIPPETTVILLE AND CORDELE.
DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3201 8394 3203 8396 3209 8396 3210 8398
3221 8361 3199 8361 3194 8386 3194 8391
3193 8393
$$
TDPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 20 min |
| Dec 28, 1:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 31 min |
| Dec 28, 1:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion | 18 min |
| Dec 28, 1:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Taylor | 37 min |
| Dec 28, 2:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 29 min |
| Dec 28, 2:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford, Macon, Peach | 28 min |
| Dec 28, 2:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Stewart | 32 min |
| Dec 28, 2:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach, Twiggs | 30 min |
| Dec 28, 2:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 26 min |
| Dec 28, 3:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 30 min |
| Dec 28, 3:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley | 27 min |
| Dec 28, 3:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens | 33 min |
| Dec 28, 3:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Sumter | 31 min |
| Dec 28, 3:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 29 min |
| Dec 28, 3:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 24 min |
| Dec 28, 3:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones, Monroe | 34 min |
| Dec 28, 3:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley, Sumter | 27 min |
| Dec 28, 3:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 50 min |
| Dec 28, 3:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski | 33 min |
| Dec 28, 3:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens, Washington | 46 min |
| Dec 28, 3:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Newton | 27 min |
| Dec 28, 3:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones, Monroe | 37 min |
| Dec 28, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Wilcox | 30 min |
| Dec 28, 4:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Pulaski | 35 min |
| Dec 28, 4:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 34 min |
| Dec 28, 4:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 31 min |
| Dec 28, 4:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 24 min |
| Dec 28, 4:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 34 min |
| Dec 28, 4:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 33 min |
| Dec 28, 4:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 32 min |
| Dec 28, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington, Wilkinson | 31 min |
| Dec 28, 4:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson, Johnson | 29 min |
| Dec 28, 4:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens | 37 min |
| Dec 28, 4:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 35 min |
| Dec 28, 4:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Pulaski, Wilcox | 34 min |
| Dec 28, 4:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 45 min |
| Dec 28, 4:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson, Washington | 33 min |
| Dec 28, 5:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 34 min |
| Dec 28, 5:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 47 min |
| Dec 28, 5:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 16 min |
| Dec 28, 5:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 30 min |
| Dec 28, 5:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Treutlen | 23 min |
| Dec 28, 5:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 31 min |
| Dec 28, 6:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 26 min |
| Dec 28, 6:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Washington, Wilkinson | 34 min |
| Dec 28, 6:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin | 28 min |
| Dec 28, 6:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 31 min |
| Dec 28, 6:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 48 min |
| Dec 28, 6:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 51 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.