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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 4, 2011Fannin County, Towns County, Union County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 2011, 9:45 PM EDT for Fannin County, Towns County, Union County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min. 7 reports 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: Apr 4, 2011, 9:45 PM EDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2011, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Fannin County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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
Apr 4, 9:50 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	6 E Blairsville, GA	NINE TREES DOWN AT A RESIDENCE BETWEEN BLAIRSVILLE AND BLUE RIDGE. TWO TREES FELL ON THE HOME...RESULTING IN MAJOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. THE HOME ALSO SUSTAINED MAJOR WATER DAMAGE.
Apr 4, 9:53 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	4 Ese Morganton, GA	PUBLIC REPORTED SEVEN TREES DOWN AND DAMAGE TO A CHICKEN COOP 4 MILES ESE OF MORGANTON.
Apr 4, 10:03 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	4 Ese Morganton, GA	PUBLIC REPORTED SEVEN TREES DOWN AND DAMAGE TO A CHICKEN COOP 4 MILES ESE OF MORGANTON.
Apr 4, 10:03 PM EDT	HAIL 1	2 Sse Ivy Log, GA	PUBLIC REPORTED QUARTER SIZE SSE OF IVY LOG.
Apr 4, 10:12 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Young Harris, GA	PUBLIC REPORTS DOWNED TREES AND A BLOWN TRANSFORMER.
Apr 4, 10:12 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Young Harris, GA	QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN YOUNG HARRIS BY THE PUBLIC.
Apr 4, 10:17 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Hiawassee, GA	TOWNS COUNTY 911 RELAYED A REPORT OF NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY.

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
Apr 4, 5:55 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 176 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

617 
WUUS52 KFFC 050145
SVRFFC
GAC111-281-291-050230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0111.110405T0145Z-110405T0230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
945 PM EDT MON APR 4 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN FANNIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  UNION COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  TOWNS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 940 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL...AND
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 70 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF MORGANTON...MOVING EAST AT 70 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  SUCHES...BLAIRSVILLE...YOUNG HARRIS AND HIAWASSEE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3499 8354 3495 8354 3494 8359 3491 8360
      3488 8365 3480 8367 3478 8382 3473 8383
      3472 8386 3473 8396 3464 8404 3466 8413
      3463 8419 3467 8425 3473 8426 3480 8431
      3499 8423
TIME...MOT...LOC 0145Z 261DEG 63KT 3472 8435

$$

4 follow-up statements

551 
WWUS52 KFFC 050210
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
210 AM GMT TUE APR 5 2011

GAC111-281-291-050230-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0111.000000T0000Z-110405T0230Z/
UNION GA-TOWNS GA-FANNIN GA-
1010 PM EDT MON APR 4 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN FANNIN...TOWNS AND UNION COUNTIES...

AT 1007 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED
HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED
NEAR BLAIRSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TRACK
ROCK...ALEXANDERS MILL...YOUNG HARRIS...BRASSTOWN BALD...BLUE
MOUNTAIN SHELTER...HIAWASSEE...MOUNTAIN SCENE...MACEDONIA...TITUS...
PLUM ORCHARD GAP SHELTER AND TATE CITY.

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3499 8354 3495 8354 3494 8359 3491 8360
      3488 8365 3480 8367 3479 8381 3474 8383
      3474 8395 3464 8404 3466 8413 3463 8419
      3467 8425 3473 8426 3485 8411 3499 8408
TIME...MOT...LOC 0210Z 257DEG 54KT 3486 8391

$$

053 
WWUS52 KFFC 050220
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1020 PM EDT MON APR 4 2011

GAC111-291-050230-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0111.000000T0000Z-110405T0230Z/
UNION GA-FANNIN GA-
1020 PM EDT MON APR 4 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN FANNIN AND UNION
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.

IF YOU SAW 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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3499 8354 3495 8354 3494 8359 3491 8360
      3488 8365 3480 8368 3480 8378 3484 8379
      3486 8381 3490 8380 3491 8382 3490 8385
      3499 8383
TIME...MOT...LOC 0220Z 251DEG 60KT 3493 8370

$$

GAC281-050230-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0111.000000T0000Z-110405T0230Z/
TOWNS GA-
1020 PM EDT MON APR 4 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR TOWNS COUNTY...

AT 1017 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 70 MPH.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MACEDONIA...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
TITUS...PLUM ORCHARD GAP SHELTER AND TATE CITY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

WEAK...SHORT LIVED TORNADOES CAN SOMETIMES DEVELOP ALONG THE LEADING
EDGE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LINES LIKE THIS ONE. HOWEVER...THE MAIN
THREAT IS DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND
STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS.

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3499 8354 3495 8354 3494 8359 3491 8360
      3488 8365 3480 8368 3480 8378 3484 8379
      3486 8381 3490 8380 3491 8382 3490 8385
      3499 8383
TIME...MOT...LOC 0220Z 251DEG 60KT 3493 8370

$$

054 
WWUS52 KFFC 050220 RRA
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1020 PM EDT MON APR 4 2011

GAC111-281-291-050230-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0111.000000T0000Z-110405T0230Z/
UNION GA-TOWNS GA-FANNIN GA-
1020 PM EDT MON APR 4 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN FANNIN...TOWNS AND UNION COUNTIES...

AT 1017 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 70 MPH. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BRASSTOWN BALD...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. 
QUARTER SIZE HAIL HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM WEST OF 
BLAIRSVILLE.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
TITUS...PLUM ORCHARD GAP SHELTER AND TATE CITY.

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3499 8354 3495 8354 3494 8359 3491 8360
      3488 8365 3480 8368 3479 8381 3474 8383
      3474 8395 3464 8404 3466 8413 3473 8417
      3480 8396 3488 8392 3499 8391
TIME...MOT...LOC 0220Z 257DEG 54KT 3489 8373

$$

012 
WWUS52 KFFC 050229
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1029 PM EDT MON APR 4 2011

GAC281-050239-
/O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0111.000000T0000Z-110405T0230Z/
TOWNS GA-
1029 PM EDT MON APR 4 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TOWNS COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE AT 1030 PM EDT...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY.

IF YOU SAW 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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
500 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3499 8354 3495 8354 3494 8359 3491 8360
      3488 8365 3480 8368 3480 8378 3484 8379
      3486 8381 3490 8380 3491 8382 3490 8385
      3499 8383
TIME...MOT...LOC 0229Z 251DEG 60KT 3498 8353

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	49 min
Apr 4, 8:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd, Walker	62 min
Apr 4, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Pickens, Whitfield	51 min
Apr 4, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Polk	45 min
Apr 4, 9:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield	43 min
Apr 4, 9:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	48 min
Apr 4, 9:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding, Polk	51 min
Apr 4, 9:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Lumpkin, Pickens, White	49 min
Apr 4, 10:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson	42 min
Apr 4, 10:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Cobb, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding	46 min
Apr 4, 10:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Hall, Lumpkin, White	46 min
Apr 4, 10:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb, Forsyth, Fulton	53 min
Apr 4, 10:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard, Troup	31 min
Apr 4, 11:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Cobb, Fulton	65 min
Apr 4, 11:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Cobb, Douglas, Heard	45 min
Apr 4, 11:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson	48 min
Apr 4, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett	44 min
Apr 4, 11:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Harris, Meriwether, Troup	57 min
Apr 4, 11:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Talbot	55 min
Apr 4, 11:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry, Newton, Rockdale, Walton	38 min
Apr 4, 11:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Lamar, Monroe, Pike, Spalding and 1 more	46 min
Apr 5, 12:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe	61 min
Apr 5, 12:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Stewart, Webster	53 min
Apr 5, 12:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Morgan, Newton, Rockdale, Walton	47 min
Apr 5, 12:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Jasper, Jones, Lamar and 5 more	49 min
Apr 5, 12:48 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dade	15 hr
Apr 5, 12:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Macon, Schley, Sumter	46 min
Apr 5, 1:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Jasper, Morgan, Putnam	52 min
Apr 5, 1:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Jones, Peach and 2 more	63 min
Apr 5, 1:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Webster	14 min
Apr 5, 1:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren	47 min
Apr 5, 1:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkes	45 min
Apr 5, 1:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Macon, Pulaski and 2 more	46 min
Apr 5, 1:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Washington	63 min
Apr 5, 2:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkinson	19 min
Apr 5, 2:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Warren	33 min
Apr 5, 2:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski, Telfair, Wheeler, Wilcox	59 min
Apr 5, 2:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Washington	35 min
Apr 5, 3:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen	66 min
Apr 5, 3:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson	16 min
Apr 5, 6:10 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth	3 hr
Apr 5, 3:25 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	FFC	Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 72 more	18 hr
Apr 5, 3:25 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	FFC	Fannin, Towns, Union	18 hr

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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.