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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2008, 4:50 PM EDT for Butts County, Henry County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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
- Jun 22, 2008, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2008, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Butts County, GA, Henry County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 1164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 222050
SVRFFC
GAC035-151-222115-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0352.080622T2050Z-080622T2115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
450 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN BUTTS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHEASTERN HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 515 PM EDT
* AT 448 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZED HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
FINCHERVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 9 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
JACKSON.
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 3347 8395 3334 8386 3325 8399 3338 8411
3348 8402
TIME...MOT...LOC 2050Z 286DEG 8KT 3342 8403
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 23 min |
| Jun 22, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 32 min |
| Jun 22, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 52 min |
| Jun 22, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler | 48 min |
| Jun 22, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 32 min |
| Jun 22, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam | 33 min |
| Jun 22, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 27 min |
| Jun 22, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 18 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.