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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 220, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 25, 2007Bartow County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2007, 4:55 PM EDT for Bartow County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 25, 2007, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2007, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bartow County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 25, 5:00 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	White, GA

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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 238 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 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 252055
SVRFFC
GAC015-252130-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0220.070625T2055Z-070625T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
455 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 453 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZED HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  WHITE...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PINE
  LOG...FUNKHOUSER AND FOLSOM.

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 3420 8486 3423 8466 3440 8467 3439 8491

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 1:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin	27 min
Jun 25, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	White	56 min
Jun 25, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	60 min
Jun 25, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jackson	40 min
Jun 25, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	46 min
Jun 25, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper	26 min
Jun 25, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks	39 min
Jun 25, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	24 min
Jun 25, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison	54 min
Jun 25, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Forsyth	41 min
Jun 25, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	26 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.