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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 5, 2007Dodge County, Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2007, 3:07 PM EDT for Dodge County, Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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 5, 2007, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2007, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dodge County, GA, Laurens County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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
Jun 5, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1340 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 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 051907
SVRFFC
GAC091-175-051930-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0118.070605T1907Z-070605T1930Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
307 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 304 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PLAINFIELD...MOVING EAST AT
  25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 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 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 3229 8317 3209 8313 3213 8285 3234 8272

$$

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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 5, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	36 min
Jun 5, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	32 min
Jun 5, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	28 min
Jun 5, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry, Spalding	26 min
Jun 5, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston	28 min
Jun 5, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	44 min
Jun 5, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Pulaski	28 min
Jun 5, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Gwinnett	26 min
Jun 5, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	25 min
Jun 5, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley	25 min
Jun 5, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon	51 min
Jun 5, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	24 min
Jun 5, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	23 min
Jun 5, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	26 min
Jun 5, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly	51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2007 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.