Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2008, 10:30 PM EDT for Douglas County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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
- Mar 14, 2008, 10:30 PM EDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2008, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Douglas County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 733 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 150230
SVRFFC
GAC097-121-150315-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0064.080315T0230Z-080315T0315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1030 PM EDT FRI MAR 14 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
CENTRAL FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1115 PM EDT
* AT 1026 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
DOUGLASVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
DOUGLASVILLE...MIDWAY...CHAPEL HILL...LITHIA SPRINGS...SWEETWATER
CREEK STATE PARK...UNION CITY...EAST POINT...COLLEGE PARK...TURNER
FIELD AND HAPEVILLE.
DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. ALTHOUGH
CURRENT DATA DOES NOT INDICATE THE EXISTENCE OF A TORNADO...A TORNADO
MAY STILL DEVELOP. 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 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 3366 8483 3379 8474 3378 8460 3375 8457
3377 8453 3375 8434 3367 8433 3364 8435
3364 8446 3356 8446 3355 8447
TIME...MOT...LOC 0230Z 290DEG 34KT 3373 8478
$$3 follow-up statements
000
WWUS52 KFFC 150252
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1052 PM EDT FRI MAR 14 2008
GAC097-150302-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0064.000000T0000Z-080315T0315Z/
DOUGLAS GA-
1052 PM EDT FRI MAR 14 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM THAT TRIGGERED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3366 8467 3369 8464 3377 8453 3375 8434
3365 8434 3364 8437 3364 8446 3357 8446
3356 8447
TIME...MOT...LOC 0252Z 290DEG 34KT 3366 8455
$$
GAC121-150315-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0064.000000T0000Z-080315T0315Z/
FULTON GA-
1052 PM EDT FRI MAR 14 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM EDT
FOR CENTRAL FULTON COUNTY...
AT 1050 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZED
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6
MILES WEST OF EAST POINT...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO COLLEGE
PARK...TURNER FIELD...HAPEVILLE AND GRANT PARK.
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 3366 8467 3369 8464 3377 8453 3375 8434
3365 8434 3364 8437 3364 8446 3357 8446
3356 8447
TIME...MOT...LOC 0252Z 290DEG 34KT 3366 8455
$$000
WWUS52 KFFC 150300
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1059 PM EDT FRI MAR 14 2008
GAC121-150315-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0064.000000T0000Z-080315T0315Z/
FULTON GA-
1059 PM EDT FRI MAR 14 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM EDT
FOR CENTRAL FULTON COUNTY...
AT 1054 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING NICKEL SIZED HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 70 MPH.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR EAST POINT...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING DAMAGING WINDS IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER
OF THE CITY OF ATLANTA AND APPROACHING THE CITY OF EAST POINT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO COLLEGE
PARK...TURNER FIELD...HAPEVILLE AND GRANT PARK.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3365 8464 3375 8452 3375 8434 3365 8434
3364 8437 3364 8446 3363 8447 3357 8446
3356 8447
TIME...MOT...LOC 0259Z 290DEG 34KT 3364 8448
$$000
WWUS52 KFFC 150315
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1115 PM EDT FRI MAR 14 2008
GAC121-150325-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0064.000000T0000Z-080315T0315Z/
FULTON GA-
1115 PM EDT FRI MAR 14 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL FULTON COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF CENTRAL FULTON COUNTY AND
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
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 3365 8464 3375 8452 3375 8434 3365 8434
3364 8437 3364 8446 3363 8447 3357 8446
3356 8447
TIME...MOT...LOC 0315Z 290DEG 34KT 3359 8431
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 36 min |
| Mar 14, 9:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fulton | 30 min |
| Mar 14, 9:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 24 min |
| Mar 14, 9:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 23 min |
| Mar 14, 9:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 27 min |
| Mar 14, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale, Walton | 45 min |
| Mar 14, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Paulding | 35 min |
| Mar 14, 10:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 33 min |
| Mar 14, 10:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Newton | 42 min |
| Mar 14, 10:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 55 min |
| Mar 14, 11:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Putnam | 27 min |
| Mar 14, 11:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Putnam | 46 min |
| Mar 14, 11:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 40 min |
| Mar 14, 11:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry | 50 min |
| Mar 15, 12:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Walton | 27 min |
| Mar 15, 4:05 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 37 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 15, 5:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard | 50 min |
| Mar 15, 5:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton and 1 more | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 6:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Spalding | 44 min |
| Mar 15, 6:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Rockdale and 1 more | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 6:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Walton | 13 min |
| Mar 15, 11:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Paulding, Polk | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 12:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 26 min |
| Mar 15, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Union | 36 min |
| Mar 15, 12:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 12:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 23 min |
| Mar 15, 12:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 25 min |
| Mar 15, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 1:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Pickens | 46 min |
| Mar 15, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 1:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Hall, Jackson | 41 min |
| Mar 15, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding | 29 min |
| Mar 15, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson | 45 min |
| Mar 15, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 24 min |
| Mar 15, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray | 27 min |
| Mar 15, 2:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Madison | 37 min |
| Mar 15, 2:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth, Fulton | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson | 40 min |
| Mar 15, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Gilmer, Gordon, Pickens | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 2:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Hall | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens | 45 min |
| Mar 15, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 2:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 36 min |
| Mar 15, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Lumpkin, Union | 36 min |
| Mar 15, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin, Pickens | 41 min |
| Mar 15, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Fulton, Paulding | 51 min |
| Mar 15, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 40 min |
| Mar 15, 3:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oglethorpe | 46 min |
| Mar 15, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 23 min |
| Mar 15, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | White | 23 min |
| Mar 15, 3:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Fulton | 38 min |
| Mar 15, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 34 min |
| Mar 15, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett | 59 min |
| Mar 15, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall | 44 min |
| Mar 15, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 4:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson | 25 min |
| Mar 15, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 25 min |
| Mar 15, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 23 min |
| Mar 15, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale, Walton | 32 min |
| Mar 15, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 46 min |
| Mar 15, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton, Walton | 45 min |
| Mar 15, 4:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett | 26 min |
| Mar 15, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 79 min |
| Mar 15, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 34 min |
| Mar 15, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hall, Jackson | 45 min |
| Mar 15, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro | 40 min |
| Mar 15, 4:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 37 min |
| Mar 15, 4:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Oconee | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Newton | 27 min |
| Mar 15, 4:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan | 24 min |
| Mar 15, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Heard | 62 min |
| Mar 15, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 46 min |
| Mar 15, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette, Fulton | 28 min |
| Mar 15, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 27 min |
| Mar 15, 5:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Madison | 26 min |
| Mar 15, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 18 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.