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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 12, 2007Peach County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2007, 1:52 AM EDT for Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 min. 2 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 12, 2007, 1:52 AM EDT (05:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2007, 2:30 AM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Peach County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:53 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 12, 2:00 AM EDTTSTM WND DMGFort Valley, GAWIDESPREAD TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE.
Jun 12, 2:00 AM EDTHAIL 0.5Fort Valley, GAPEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL REPORTED AROUND THE COUNTY.

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 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 00:00Z on 2007-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 235 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2007-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 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
235 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2072 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 120552
SVRFFC
GAC225-120630-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0166.070612T0552Z-070612T0630Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
152 AM EDT TUE JUN 12 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PEACH COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 230 AM EDT

* AT 149 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FORT
  VALLEY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  POWERSVILLE AND BYRON.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS

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 3268 8376 3252 8398 3249 8375 3268 8371

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 10:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMuscogee32 min
Jun 11, 11:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMuscogee32 min
Jun 11, 11:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTalbot35 min
Jun 12, 12:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMarion29 min
Jun 12, 12:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTaylor64 min
Jun 12, 12:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris33 min
Jun 12, 12:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee38 min
Jun 12, 1:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrawford45 min
Jun 12, 2:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston, Peach20 min
Jun 12, 2:38 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLamar, Pike52 min
Jun 12, 3:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMonroe29 min
Jun 12, 5:04 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter26 min
Jun 12, 5:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris28 min
Jun 12, 5:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCStewart40 min
Jun 12, 5:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter16 min
Jun 12, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb24 min
Jun 12, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDawson, Forsyth19 min
Jun 12, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks36 min
Jun 12, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHall13 min
Jun 12, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJackson47 min
Jun 12, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWhite36 min
Jun 12, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow26 min
Jun 12, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHall25 min
Jun 12, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJackson14 min
Jun 12, 7:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow27 min
Jun 12, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWalton57 min
Jun 12, 7:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett35 min
Jun 12, 7:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCForsyth34 min
Jun 12, 7:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Fulton, Rockdale53 min
Jun 12, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett34 min
Jun 12, 7:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMadison32 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.