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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 319, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 26, 2007Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2007, 7:21 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 2007, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2007, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Laurens County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 309 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 808 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 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 262321
SVRFFC
GAC175-270000-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0319.070726T2321Z-070727T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
721 PM EDT THU JUL 26 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 717 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 MINTER...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL ALSO AFFECT EAST DUBLIN.

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 3260 8274 3247 8302 3240 8288 3246 8265

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 270001
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
759 PM EDT THU JUL 26 2007

GAC175-270009-
/O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0319.000000T0000Z-070727T0000Z/
LAURENS GA-
759 PM EDT THU JUL 26 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN LAURENS COUNTY EXPIRED
AT 800 PM EDT...

AT 757 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER EASTERN AND 
SOUTHEASTERN LAURENS COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. THESE 
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY AND ARE NO LONGER 
DETERMINED TO BE SEVERE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND OCCASIONAL 
CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.

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 3260 8274 3247 8302 3240 8288 3246 8265

$$


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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Rockdale	33 min
Jul 25, 9:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry	35 min
Jul 26, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford	47 min
Jul 26, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	44 min
Jul 26, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Paulding	29 min
Jul 26, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	38 min
Jul 26, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts	37 min
Jul 26, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper	38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.