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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 298, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 20, 2007Bibb County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2007, 3:18 PM EDT for Bibb County, Georgia. It was in force for 57 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
Jul 20, 2007, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 2007, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bibb County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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
Jul 20, 3:30 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGMacon, GAAPPROXIMATELY 10 TREES DOWN IN CITY.
Jul 20, 3:50 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGMacon, GAPUBLIC REPORTED 20 TO 25 TREES DOWN WITHIN NEIGHBORHOOD.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 20, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 2007-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 652 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 12:00Z on 2007-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 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
652 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
992 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 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 201918
SVRFFC
GAC021-202015-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0298.070720T1918Z-070720T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
318 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 316 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
  LIZELLA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  MACON...CROSS KEYS AND DRY BRANCH.

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA.

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 3294 8372 3283 8390 3273 8381 3267 8360
      3281 8348

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 12:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHaralson57 min
Jul 20, 12:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll43 min
Jul 20, 1:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHeard23 min
Jul 20, 1:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Coweta64 min
Jul 20, 1:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas, Fulton39 min
Jul 20, 1:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFayette, Spalding65 min
Jul 20, 1:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHeard, Meriwether, Troup61 min
Jul 20, 2:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPike54 min
Jul 20, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPike52 min
Jul 20, 2:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLamar, Upson48 min
Jul 20, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether34 min
Jul 20, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMonroe47 min
Jul 20, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrawford, Talbot, Taylor60 min
Jul 20, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston, Peach46 min
Jul 20, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs51 min
Jul 20, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilkinson50 min
Jul 20, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Laurens66 min
Jul 20, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge55 min
Jul 20, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJohnson, Washington64 min
Jul 20, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMontgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler55 min
Jul 20, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel62 min
Jul 20, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge, Wilcox21 min
Jul 20, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCToombs39 min

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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.