Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 2008, 2:28 PM EST for Forsyth County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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
- Mar 4, 2008, 2:28 PM EST (19:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2008, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 3:00 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 4 E Cumming, GA | THREE TREES DOWN AT ROBIN RD AND LANIER DRIVE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 12:04 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 451 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 041928
SVRFFC
GAC117-121-042015-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0051.080304T1928Z-080304T2015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
228 PM EST TUE MAR 4 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
FORSYTH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 315 PM EST
* AT 226 PM EST...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 CENTERED NEAR
ROSWELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
ALPHARETTA AND CUMMING.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST TUESDAY EVENING
FOR MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL 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 3415 8409 3409 8412 3399 8437 3410 8443
3412 8442 3413 8437 3420 8430 3419 8427
3422 8426 3432 8411 3420 8401
TIME...MOT...LOC 1928Z 237DEG 27KT 3406 8435
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS52 KFFC 041942
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
241 PM EST TUE MAR 4 2008
GAC117-121-042015-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0051.000000T0000Z-080304T2015Z/
FORSYTH GA-FULTON GA-
241 PM EST TUE MAR 4 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM EST
FOR NORTHEASTERN FULTON AND FORSYTH COUNTIES...
AT 239 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
DREW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CUMMING...MATT AND COAL MOUNTAIN.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY INSIDE A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3420 8401 3419 8405 3415 8409 3409 8412
3399 8437 3416 8434 3419 8431 3419 8427
3422 8426 3432 8411
TIME...MOT...LOC 1941Z 230DEG 36KT 3418 8421
$$000
WWUS52 KFFC 041957
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
257 PM EST TUE MAR 4 2008
GAC117-042015-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0051.000000T0000Z-080304T2015Z/
FORSYTH GA-
257 PM EST TUE MAR 4 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM EST
FOR CENTRAL FORSYTH COUNTY...
AT 253 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
CUMMING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO COAL
MOUNTAIN.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY INSIDE A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
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 3420 8401 3419 8406 3413 8411 3409 8412
3407 8417 3409 8419 3411 8424 3420 8423
3432 8411
TIME...MOT...LOC 1957Z 227DEG 36KT 3424 8409
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 1:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Gilmer, Pickens | 38 min |
| Mar 4, 2:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb | 36 min |
| Mar 4, 3:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 26 min |
| Mar 4, 3:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | White | 16 min |
| Mar 4, 3:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 23 min |
| Mar 4, 4:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 26 min |
| Mar 4, 4:52 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fulton | 4 hr |
| Mar 4, 5:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Putnam | 41 min |
| Mar 4, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 36 min |
| Mar 4, 5:52 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 38 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.