Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2006, 12:14 PM EDT for Dade County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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
- Apr 19, 2006, 12:14 PM EDT (16:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2006, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:16 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 10:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 191614 SVRFFC GAC083-295-191700- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0088.060419T1614Z-060419T1700Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1214 PM EDT WED APR 19 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 100 PM EDT * AT 1209 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZED HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HIGH POINT...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TRENTON...LA FAYETTE...HINKLES AND CHICKAMAUGA. IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS 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. 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 3494 8530 3487 8558 3459 8550 3460 8504 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KFFC 191647 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1247 PM EDT WED APR 19 2006 GAC083-295-191700- /O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0088.000000T0000Z-060419T1700Z/ DADE GA-WALKER GA- 1247 PM EDT WED APR 19 2006 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM EDT FOR WALKER AND SOUTHERN DADE COUNTIES... AT 1242 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZED HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES EAST OF LA FAYETTE TO 14 MILES WEST OF LA FAYETTE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES. IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3494 8530 3487 8558 3459 8550 3460 8504 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 9:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 10:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 58 min |
| Apr 19, 10:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 10:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Pickens | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 10:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 33 min |
| Apr 19, 11:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 49 min |
| Apr 19, 11:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 12:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 62 min |
| Apr 19, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 23 min |
| Apr 19, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 1:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton | 26 min |
| Apr 19, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 37 min |
| Apr 19, 4:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Troup | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 33 min |
| Apr 19, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 36 min |
| Apr 19, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 33 min |
| Apr 19, 4:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 5:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 44 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.