Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 521, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2008, 6:02 PM EDT for Banks County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 2, 2008, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2008, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Banks County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 6:20 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Wnw Homer, GA | A TREE WAS BLOCKING WESTMORELAND ROAD. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1040 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 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 022202
SVRFFC
GAC011-022245-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0521.080802T2202Z-080802T2245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
602 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 645 PM EDT
* AT 557 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALTO...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
SKIRTING THE EASTERN BORDER OF THE COUNTY.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HOLLINGSWORTH AND HOMER.
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 100 AM EDT SUNDAY
MORNING 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 3446 8340 3442 8338 3433 8339 3427 8333
3425 8333 3420 8340 3426 8349 3426 8356
3432 8364 3435 8365 3436 8367 3441 8366
3449 8356
TIME...MOT...LOC 2202Z 312DEG 27KT 3438 8359
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 63 min |
| Aug 2, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Gordon, Pickens | 30 min |
| Aug 2, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 56 min |
| Aug 2, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Hall, Jackson | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 25 min |
| Aug 2, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Murray | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 67 min |
| Aug 2, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 63 min |
| Aug 2, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 58 min |
| Aug 2, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Henry, Rockdale | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 49 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.