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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 392, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 23, 2007Crisp County, Dooly County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2007, 1:40 AM EDT for Crisp County, Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
Aug 23, 2007, 1:40 AM EDT (05:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2007, 2:15 AM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:42 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 00:00Z on 2007-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 535 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 00:00Z on 2007-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
535 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2592 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 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 230540
SVRFFC
GAC081-093-230615-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0392.070823T0540Z-070823T0615Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
140 AM EDT THU AUG 23 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CRISP COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN DOOLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 215 AM EDT

* AT 136 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED
  ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF GEORGIA VETERANS
  STATE PARK TO CORDELE...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  WENONA AND RAINES.

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 3209 8398 3209 8386 3207 8369 3189 8373
      3182 8380 3185 8394

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 10:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWashington25 min
Aug 22, 10:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJohnson, Laurens43 min
Aug 22, 10:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilcox25 min
Aug 22, 11:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Dodge27 min
Aug 22, 11:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge47 min
Aug 22, 11:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTreutlen36 min
Aug 22, 11:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMontgomery, Wheeler47 min
Aug 23, 12:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilcox41 min
Aug 23, 12:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Pulaski51 min
Aug 23, 1:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter44 min
Aug 23, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee35 min
Aug 23, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDawson, Lumpkin43 min
Aug 23, 5:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee40 min
Aug 23, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDawson, Hall33 min
Aug 23, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPaulding40 min
Aug 23, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett30 min
Aug 23, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Haralson32 min
Aug 23, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Floyd, Polk51 min
Aug 23, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll47 min
Aug 23, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas, Paulding43 min
Aug 23, 6:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Fulton26 min
Aug 23, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFulton34 min
Aug 23, 7:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll32 min
Aug 23, 7:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHeard37 min
Aug 23, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Fayette, Fulton51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.