Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 2011, 10:59 PM EDT for Coweta County, Heard County, Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 min. 2 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, 10:59 PM EDT (02:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2011, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Coweta County, GA, Heard County, GA, Troup County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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, 11:28 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | Corinth, GA | PUBLIC REPORTS GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL IN CORINTH. |
| Apr 4, 11:40 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Sse West Point, GA | HARRIS COUNTY 911 REPORTS 12-15 TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE WITH OVER HALF A DOZEN TREES DOWN NEAR WEST POINT. |
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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
697
WUUS52 KFFC 050259
SVRFFC
GAC077-149-285-050330-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0118.110405T0259Z-110405T0330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1059 PM EDT MON APR 4 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WESTERN COWETA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
HEARD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
TROUP COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT
* AT 1054 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
QUARTER SIZED HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 70 MPH. THESE
STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTH OF
EPHESUS TO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FRANKLIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
75 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
LAGRANGE...CENTRALHATCHEE...HOGANSVILLE AND CORINTH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
500 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3343 8529 3343 8501 3345 8496 3344 8494
3351 8484 3351 8480 3319 8485 3319 8486
3287 8486 3287 8519 3336 8529
TIME...MOT...LOC 0259Z 240DEG 65KT 3353 8513 3320 8519
$$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, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Towns, Union | 45 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, 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.