Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2007, 6:22 PM EDT for Heard County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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
- Jul 1, 2007, 6:22 PM EDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2007, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Heard County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 6:40 PM EDT | HAIL 0.25 | Franklin, GA | SOME TREES LIMBS DOWN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1436 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 012221
SVRFFC
GAC149-012300-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0265.070701T2222Z-070701T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
622 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
HEARD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 700 PM EDT
* AT 618 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
SIMPSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
FRANKLIN.
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 3343 8525 3334 8528 3330 8527 3322 8505
3332 8498 3342 8500 3343 8515
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KFFC 012233
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
633 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2007
GAC149-012300-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0265.000000T0000Z-070701T2300Z/
HEARD GA-
633 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2007
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR HEARD COUNTY...
AT 630 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF
BALL SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
SIMPSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CENTRALHATCHEE AND FRANKLIN.
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3343 8525 3334 8528 3330 8527 3324 8514
3322 8505 3332 8498 3342 8500 3343 8515
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 9:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fulton | 36 min |
| Jun 30, 10:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 48 min |
| Jul 1, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 23 min |
| Jul 1, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson | 47 min |
| Jul 1, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Hall | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 62 min |
| Jul 1, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 23 min |
| Jul 1, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 52 min |
| Jul 1, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock | 27 min |
| Jul 1, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 38 min |
| Jul 1, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson, Washington | 50 min |
| Jul 1, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 20 min |
| Jul 1, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 38 min |
| Jul 1, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 25 min |
| Jul 1, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 25 min |
| Jul 1, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 44 min |
| Jul 1, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 30 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.