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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 5, 2007Dodge County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2007, 8:26 PM EDT for Dodge County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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: May 5, 2007, 8:26 PM EDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2007, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dodge County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 5, 9:00 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	Chauncey, 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 621 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 060026
SVRFFC
GAC091-060115-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0090.070506T0026Z-070506T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
826 PM EDT SAT MAY 5 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 823 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO
  GOLF BALL SIZED.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PLAINFIELD...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

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

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT 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 3204 8308 3233 8319 3236 8311 3235 8310
      3225 8303 3223 8304 3214 8298 3219 8287
      3212 8296 3210 8295 3208 8297

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 060043
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
839 PM EDT SAT MAY 5 2007

GAC091-060115-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0090.000000T0000Z-070506T0115Z/
DODGE GA-
839 PM EDT SAT MAY 5 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM EDT
FOR EASTERN DODGE COUNTY...

AT 837 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG AND JUST WEST OF THE 
DODGE...LAURENS COUNTY LINE...SOUTH OF PLAINFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST 
AT 10 MPH.

LARGE DAMAGING GOLF BALL-SIZED HAIL IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS 
STORM.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT 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 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 3204 8308 3233 8319 3236 8311 3235 8310
      3225 8303 3223 8304 3214 8298 3219 8287
      3212 8296 3210 8295 3208 8297

$$


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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 8:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	30 min
May 5, 9:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	41 min
May 5, 9:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson	38 min
May 5, 9:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens, Wheeler	49 min
May 5, 9:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	65 min
May 5, 9:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery	42 min
May 6, 5:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike, Upson	23 min
May 6, 2:01 PM EDT	Red Flag Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more	30 hr

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.