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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 8, 2007Polk County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2007, 3:05 PM EDT for Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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 8, 2007, 3:05 PM EDT (19:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2007, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Polk County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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 8, 3:15 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Cedartown, GA	911 CENTER REPORTED DOWNED TREE ALONG CAVE SPRING ROAD IN NORTHWEST PART OF CEDARTOWN.

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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 476 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -46 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 081905
SVRFFC
GAC233-081930-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0134.070608T1905Z-070608T1930Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
305 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 302 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF CEDARTOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

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

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.

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 3398 8539 3409 8542 3409 8527 3411 8526
      3411 8516 3405 8508 3391 8518 3390 8520
      3390 8528

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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 8, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	30 min
Jun 8, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	28 min
Jun 8, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	38 min
Jun 8, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	45 min
Jun 8, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	36 min
Jun 8, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton	35 min
Jun 8, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walton	26 min
Jun 8, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	46 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.