Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 404
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2006, 4:39 PM EDT for 43 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2006, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2006, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 43 counties
Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilkes County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 37 min |
| May 26, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin | 48 min |
| May 26, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 21 min |
| May 26, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 32 min |
| May 26, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 38 min |
| May 26, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 31 min |
| May 26, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke | 14 min |
| May 26, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 30 min |
| May 26, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 43 min |
| May 26, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 62 min |
| May 26, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 22 min |
| May 26, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 66 min |
| May 26, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 25 min |
| May 26, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 46 min |
| May 26, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 44 min |
| May 26, 9:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 53 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 1030 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Columbia and 11 more | 9 hr |
| May 26, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens | 7 hr |
| May 26, 7:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 53 more | 84 min |
| May 26, 1:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Berkeley, Calhoun, Cherokee and 26 more | 93 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.