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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 419, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 24, 2007Jackson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2007, 4:32 PM EDT for Jackson County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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
Aug 24, 2007, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2007, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jackson County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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
Aug 24, 4:35 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGTalmo, GACHICKEN HOUSE DESTROYED.
Aug 24, 4:35 PM EDTHAIL 0.25Talmo, GA

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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 2007-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 774 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 2007-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
774 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 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 242032
SVRFFC
GAC157-242100-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0419.070824T2032Z-070824T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
432 PM EDT FRI AUG 24 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 430 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JEFFERSON...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  HOSCHTON.

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 3413 8350 3430 8357 3423 8384 3402 8374

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 8:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale45 min
Aug 23, 8:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, Henry33 min
Aug 23, 8:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb32 min
Aug 23, 9:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton25 min
Aug 23, 9:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHenry31 min
Aug 23, 10:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether, Pike49 min
Aug 24, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTowns30 min
Aug 24, 3:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCUnion32 min
Aug 24, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFannin44 min
Aug 24, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGilmer31 min
Aug 24, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMadison37 min
Aug 24, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTroup23 min
Aug 24, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClarke25 min
Aug 24, 5:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Oconee24 min
Aug 24, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee45 min
Aug 24, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett, Walton23 min
Aug 24, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPickens50 min
Aug 24, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Fulton38 min
Aug 24, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCNewton30 min
Aug 24, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow18 min
Aug 24, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton34 min
Aug 24, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Fulton43 min
Aug 24, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFayette26 min
Aug 24, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene, Taliaferro50 min
Aug 24, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFayette49 min
Aug 24, 7:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd42 min
Aug 24, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Twiggs51 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.