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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 539, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 2, 2008Talbot County, Taylor County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2008, 9:47 PM EDT for Talbot County, Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 58 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: Aug 2, 2008, 9:47 PM EDT (01:47 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2008, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 202 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 030147
SVRFFC
GAC263-269-030245-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0539.080803T0147Z-080803T0245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
947 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  TAYLOR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT

* AT 945 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED
  ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM REYNOLDS TO BUTLER TO 15 MILES WEST OF
  BUTLER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  POTTERVILLE...MAUK...CHARING AND RUPERT.

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.

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 3239 8431 3238 8435 3242 8436 3243 8440
      3247 8441 3254 8446 3255 8445 3256 8449
      3255 8450 3266 8455 3261 8406 3258 8406
      3253 8400 3249 8401 3252 8407 3249 8412
      3240 8419 3240 8424 3237 8425 3237 8431
TIME...MOT...LOC 0147Z 327DEG 14KT 3253 8408 3253 8408
          3252 8428 3254 8449

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 8:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton	29 min
Aug 2, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Henry, Spalding	52 min
Aug 2, 8:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkes	42 min
Aug 2, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro	31 min
Aug 2, 9:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb	39 min
Aug 2, 9:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs	44 min
Aug 2, 10:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon	43 min
Aug 2, 10:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Talbot	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.