Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2006, 5:18 AM EDT for Catoosa County, Dade County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 3, 2006, 5:18 AM EDT (09:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2006, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Catoosa County, GA, Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:21 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 5:25 AM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | Rising Fawn, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 3:47 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 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 030919 SVRFFC GAC047-083-295-031000- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0034.060403T0918Z-060403T1000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 518 AM EDT MON APR 3 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CATOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 600 AM EDT * AT 517 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZED HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRENTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. WIND GUST TO 60 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ROSSVILLE...RINGGOLD...NEW ENGLAND...LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN...LA FAYETTE...INDIAN SPRINGS...HINKLES...HIGH POINT...GRAYSVILLE...FORT OGLETHORPE...CHICKAMAUGA AND BOYNTON. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 3498 8561 3465 8553 3472 8516 3499 8508 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 4:42 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 3, 5:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 24 min |
| Apr 3, 5:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 5:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 5:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 5:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 5:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 20 min |
| Apr 3, 5:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 6:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Pickens | 23 min |
| Apr 3, 6:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 6:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Union | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 6:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Pickens | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 6:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 21 min |
| Apr 3, 6:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 6:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 6:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 22 min |
| Apr 3, 7:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 21 min |
| Apr 3, 7:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 7 min |
| Apr 3, 7:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 12 min |
| Apr 3, 7:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 8:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 10 min |
| Apr 3, 9:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 22 min |
| Apr 3, 4:00 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 12 hr |
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.