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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 5, 2009Baldwin County, Washington County, Wilkinson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2009, 8:32 PM EDT for Baldwin County, Washington County, Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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: May 5, 2009, 8:32 PM EDT (00:32 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2009, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Baldwin County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 66 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 060032
SVRFFC
GAC009-303-319-060100-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0252.090506T0032Z-090506T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
832 PM EDT TUE MAY 5 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTH CENTRAL WILKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  WEST CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 831 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
  SCOTTSBORO...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  HEBRON.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 3308 8297 3290 8298 3291 8325 3306 8324
TIME...MOT...LOC 0032Z 266DEG 14KT 3299 8316

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 060042
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
842 PM EDT TUE MAY 5 2009

GAC009-303-319-060100-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-090506T0100Z/
WILKINSON GA-BALDWIN GA-WASHINGTON GA-
842 PM EDT TUE MAY 5 2009

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT
FOR WEST CENTRAL WASHINGTON...SOUTHEASTERN BALDWIN AND NORTH CENTRAL
WILKINSON COUNTIES...

AT 842 PM EDT...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 6
MILES WEST OF HEBRON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 3291 8319 3306 8319 3308 8297 3290 8298
TIME...MOT...LOC 0042Z 267DEG 17KT 3299 8310

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 8:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen, Washington, Wilkinson	37 min
May 6, 4:21 AM EDT	Flood Watch	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 26 more	15 hr
May 6, 10:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Clarke, Greene, Oconee	12 hr
May 6, 10:37 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	11 hr
May 6, 1:01 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dade	8 hr
May 6, 1:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Jefferson	12 hr
May 6, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	25 min
May 6, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	35 min
May 6, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	62 min
May 6, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Harris, Marion, Muscogee, Talbot	58 min
May 6, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Monroe, Upson	36 min
May 6, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Talbot, Taylor	36 min
May 6, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion	32 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.