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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 23, 2006Douglas County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2006, 6:19 PM EDT for Douglas County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 2006, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2006, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Douglas County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 43 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: 525 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -191 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1361 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 232219
SVRFFC
GAC097-232245-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0331.060623T2219Z-060623T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
619 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 615 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZED HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  MCWHORTER...AND MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  CHAPEL HILL.

IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL 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 3370 8488 3357 8490 3358 8479 3372 8463

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison	27 min
Jun 23, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oglethorpe	30 min
Jun 23, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pickens	27 min
Jun 23, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson, Polk	37 min
Jun 23, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer	28 min
Jun 23, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon	43 min
Jun 23, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pickens	47 min
Jun 23, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	34 min
Jun 23, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton	34 min
Jun 23, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	33 min
Jun 23, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett	51 min
Jun 23, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	23 min
Jun 23, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike	37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.