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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 26, 2006Houston County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2006, 4:08 PM EDT for Houston County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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: Jun 26, 2006, 4:08 PM EDT (20:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2006, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Houston County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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
Jun 26, 4:10 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Centerville, GA	ONE TREE DOWN PARTIALLY BLOCKING A ROAD.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 865 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 262010
SVRFFC
GAC153-262045-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0340.060626T2008Z-060626T2045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
408 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 404 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS BIBB COUNTY DEVELOPING 
SOUTHWARD
  INTO NORTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE 
LOCATED   ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MACON TO CENTERVILLE...TO 5 
MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF WARNER ROBINS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

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

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS...WHICH MAY
PRODUCE FLOODING OF STREETS...HIGHWAYS...AND OTHER LOW-LYING FLOOD 
PRONE
AREAS ACROSS NORTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY.

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 3245 8384 3243 8381 3250 8378 3249 8375
      3252 8374 3252 8370 3267 8370 3265 8357
      3261 8354 3255 8355 3240 8349 3229 8363
      3229 8384

$$


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2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 262023
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
422 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2006

GAC153-262045-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0340.000000T0000Z-060626T2045Z/
HOUSTON GA-
422 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM EDT
FOR HOUSTON COUNTY...

AT 420 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY 
SIZED HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH FROM ELBERTA TO JUST 
NORTHWEST OF BONAIRE...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT WARNER ROBINS...INCLUDING WARNER ROBINS AIR 
FORCE BASE...CENTERVILLE...AND ELBERTA.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY 
INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

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 3245 8384 3243 8381 3250 8378 3249 8375
      3252 8374 3252 8370 3267 8370 3265 8357
      3261 8354 3255 8355 3240 8349 3229 8363
      3229 8384

$$


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000 
WWUS52 KFFC 262047
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
445 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2006

GAC153-262055-
/O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0340.000000T0000Z-060626T2045Z/
HOUSTON GA-
445 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HOUSTON COUNTY EXPIRES AT 445
PM EDT...

AT 441 PM EDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS DETECTED BY DOPPLER 
RADAR. WHILE THESE STORMS HAVE WEAKENED...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 
CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY FROM WARNER ROBINS TO 
PABST...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

PEA-SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED 
FROM THIS ACTIVITY. LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. 
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE 
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

HEAVY RAIN THROUGHOUT THE AREA MAY RESULT IN FLOODING OF 
LOW-LYING...FLOOD PRONE...AND SOME STREETS AND ROADS IN THE AREA.

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 3245 8384 3243 8381 3250 8378 3249 8375
      3252 8374 3252 8370 3267 8370 3265 8357
      3261 8354 3255 8355 3240 8349 3229 8363
      3229 8384

$$


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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 3:34 AM EDT	Flood Watch	FFC	Banks, Fannin, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison and 3 more	26 hr
Jun 26, 9:55 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Fulton	65 min
Jun 26, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb	27 min

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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.