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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2007, 3:30 PM EDT for Macon County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 29, 2007, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2007, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Macon County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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 29, 3:55 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Nw Garden Valley, GA | EMA DIRECTOR RECEIVED REPORTS OF POWER LINES AND TREE LIMBS DOWN AS WELL AS A FIRE CAUSED BY LIGHTNING IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 291930 SVRFFC GAC193-292000- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0231.070629T1930Z-070629T2000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 330 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN MACON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 326 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR IDEAL THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO GARDEN VALLEY. 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 3238 8422 3230 8416 3237 8402 3247 8411 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 11:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Hall | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar | 37 min |
| Jun 29, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Warren | 35 min |
| Jun 29, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 25 min |
| Jun 29, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 30 min |
| Jun 29, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock | 30 min |
| Jun 29, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington, Wilkinson | 27 min |
| Jun 29, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 25 min |
| Jun 29, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 27 min |
| Jun 29, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 23 min |
| Jun 29, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 37 min |
| Jun 29, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 31 min |
| Jun 29, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 27 min |
| Jun 29, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette, Fulton | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 25 min |
| Jun 29, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 51 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.