Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 430, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2007, 6:11 PM EDT for Clayton County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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, 6:11 PM EDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2007, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clayton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 6:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Morrow, GA | MORE THAN SIX TREES SHEARED OFF IN A LOCAL NEIGHBORHOOD. ONE HOME HAD ABOUT 3 FEET OF SHINGLES RIPPED OFF A CORNER. |
| Aug 24, 6:45 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | 2 E Fayetteville, 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 242211 SVRFFC GAC063-242245- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0430.070824T2211Z-070824T2245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 611 PM EDT FRI AUG 24 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLAYTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 611 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 MORROW... MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CONLEY...LAKE CITY...FOREST PARK...ATLANTA HARTSFIELD-JACKSON AIRPORT...RIVERDALE...JONESBORO AND IRONDALE. 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 3352 8423 3366 8424 3365 8450 3342 8443 $$ 16
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 32 min |
| Aug 23, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 25 min |
| Aug 23, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 31 min |
| Aug 23, 10:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 32 min |
| Aug 24, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin | 44 min |
| Aug 24, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 28 min |
| Aug 24, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 37 min |
| Aug 24, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 23 min |
| Aug 24, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke | 25 min |
| Aug 24, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Oconee | 24 min |
| Aug 24, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 23 min |
| Aug 24, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 38 min |
| Aug 24, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 18 min |
| Aug 24, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 26 min |
| Aug 24, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 42 min |
| Aug 24, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 51 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.