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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 5, 2007Houston County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2007, 3:32 PM EDT for Houston County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 min. 3 reports 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 5, 2007, 3:32 PM EDT (19:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2007, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
28 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), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 5, 3:35 PM EDTHAIL 0.254 Ne Perry, GAPENNY-SIZED HAIL NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS 41 AND 96.
Jun 5, 3:35 PM EDTHAIL 0.88Bonaire, GA
Jun 5, 4:00 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGWarner Robins, GAREPORTED 10-15 TREES DOWN NEAR MOODY ROAD...HWY 96...AND RUSSELL PARKWAY.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 5, 1:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2007-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 88 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2007-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 051932
SVRFFC
GAC153-052000-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0119.070605T1932Z-070605T2000Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 329 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WARNER ROBINS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

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

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 3262 8375 3246 8377 3248 8345 3267 8349

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTroup36 min
Jun 5, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether32 min
Jun 5, 2:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris28 min
Jun 5, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHenry, Spalding26 min
Jun 5, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge, Laurens23 min
Jun 5, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens44 min
Jun 5, 4:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston, Pulaski28 min
Jun 5, 4:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Gwinnett26 min
Jun 5, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFulton25 min
Jun 5, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley25 min
Jun 5, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMacon51 min
Jun 5, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter24 min
Jun 5, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett23 min
Jun 5, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb26 min
Jun 5, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp, Dooly51 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.