Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2008, 3:48 PM EDT for Coweta County, Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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
- May 20, 2008, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 2008, 4:21 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Coweta County, GA, Fayette County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 572 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 201949
SVRFFC
GAC077-113-202030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0232.080520T1948Z-080520T2030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
348 PM EDT TUE MAY 20 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
FAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
COWETA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 430 PM EDT
* AT 344 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED HAIL ACROSS
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL COWETA COUNTY INTO WESTERN FAYETTE
COUNTY. THESE STORMS EXTENDED FROM NEWNAN TO PEACHTREE
CITY...MOVING
EAST AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
THOMAS CROSSROADS...CANONGATE...TYRONE...PEACHTREE CITY...SANDY
CREEK...SENOIA AND FAYETTEVILLE.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
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 3328 8492 3343 8493 3351 8484 3352 8462
3350 8461 3352 8459 3351 8440 3349 8438
3345 8437 3343 8440 3333 8437 3326 8444
TIME...MOT...LOC 1948Z 272DEG 40KT 3339 8471
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS52 KFFC 202012
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
410 PM EDT TUE MAY 20 2008
GAC077-202020-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0232.000000T0000Z-080520T2030Z/
COWETA GA-
410 PM EDT TUE MAY 20 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR COWETA COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...
THE THUNDERSTORM THAT EARLIER PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR COWETA COUNTY
HAS MOVED INTO FAYETTE AND CLAYTON COUNTIES.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3326 8444 3341 8461 3349 8462 3352 8459
3351 8440 3349 8438 3346 8438 3345 8437
3343 8440 3333 8437
TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 272DEG 40KT 3338 8442
$$
GAC113-202030-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0232.000000T0000Z-080520T2030Z/
FAYETTE GA-
410 PM EDT TUE MAY 20 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM EDT
FOR FAYETTE COUNTY...
AT 408 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR INMAN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.
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.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
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 3326 8444 3341 8461 3349 8462 3352 8459
3351 8440 3349 8438 3346 8438 3345 8437
3343 8440 3333 8437
TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 272DEG 40KT 3338 8442
$$
19000
WWUS52 KFFC 202021
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
421 PM EDT TUE MAY 20 2008
GAC113-202031-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0232.000000T0000Z-080520T2030Z/
FAYETTE GA-
421 PM EDT TUE MAY 20 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FAYETTE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED EAST OF THE COUNTY AND
SEVERE THREAT FOR FAYETTE COUNTY HAS ENDED AT THIS TIME.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3326 8444 3341 8461 3349 8462 3352 8459
3351 8440 3349 8438 3346 8438 3345 8437
3343 8440 3333 8437
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 270DEG 42KT 3338 8420
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 4:20 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 31 more | 15 hr |
| May 20, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 46 min |
| May 20, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Spalding | 43 min |
| May 20, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Jasper, Newton | 39 min |
| May 20, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Murray, Whitfield | 61 min |
| May 20, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 29 min |
| May 20, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Walker | 51 min |
| May 20, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Putnam | 43 min |
| May 20, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Monroe | 36 min |
| May 20, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon | 67 min |
| May 20, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 25 min |
| May 20, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 32 min |
| May 20, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro | 44 min |
| May 20, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones, Putnam | 51 min |
| May 20, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 78 min |
| May 20, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens | 44 min |
| May 20, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 26 min |
| May 20, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Union | 17 min |
| May 20, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Washington | 41 min |
| May 20, 5:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 15 min |
| May 20, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 58 min |
| May 20, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Forsyth, Fulton | 52 min |
| May 20, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding | 50 min |
| May 20, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson, Washington | 29 min |
| May 20, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton | 27 min |
| May 20, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 55 min |
| May 20, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 65 min |
| May 20, 6:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 46 min |
| May 20, 6:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 34 min |
| May 20, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale, Walton | 58 min |
| May 20, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 40 min |
| May 20, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 31 min |
| May 20, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding | 56 min |
| May 20, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Oconee | 34 min |
| May 20, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Oglethorpe, Putnam | 47 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.