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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 19, 2007Cobb County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2007, 4:22 PM EDT for Cobb 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 19, 2007, 4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2007, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cobb County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 19, 4:45 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGAcworth, GAONE TREE DOWN.
Jun 19, 4:50 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGPowder Springs, GAONE TREE DOWN IN SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY...NEAR POWDER SPRINGS.

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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 62 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 2007-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 255 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 2007-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -61 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
255 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
747 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-38 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 192021
SVRFFC
GAC067-192100-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0208.070619T2022Z-070619T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
422 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 421 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60
  MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR POWDER SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FAIR
  OAKS...MARIETTA...WHITEWATER...KENNESAW AND ACWORTH.

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 3381 8471 3376 8457 3393 8441 3397 8438
      3409 8442 3409 8473

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS52 KFFC 192058
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
456 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007

GAC067-192106-
/O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0208.000000T0000Z-070619T2100Z/
COBB GA-
456 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR COBB COUNTY EXPIRES AT 500 PM
EDT...

AT 451 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAD WEAKENED AND MOVED NORTHEAST OF 
COBB COUNTY. THUS...THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

IF YOU OBSERVED STORM DAMAGE...DOWNED TREES...OR SIGNIFICANT 
FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER 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 3381 8471 3376 8457 3393 8441 3397 8438
      3409 8442 3409 8473

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, DeKalb42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2007Every 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.