Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 28, 2011, 3:50 PM EST for Bartow County, Floyd County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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
- Feb 28, 2011, 3:50 PM EST (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2011, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bartow County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Polk County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 4:15 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 5 W Cave Spring, GA | PUBLIC REPORTED A FLAGPOLE SNAPPED BY STRONG WINDS WEST OF CAVE SPRING NEAR THE GEORGIA-ALABAMA BORDER. |
| Feb 28, 4:15 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Cedartown, GA | POLK COUNTY 911 RELAYED A REPORTS OF A DOWNED TREE ON HIGHWAY 100 IN CEDARTOWN. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 1:29 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
186
WUUS52 KFFC 282050
SVRFFC
GAC015-115-233-282115-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0014.110228T2050Z-110228T2115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
350 PM EST MON FEB 28 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
SOUTHERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
NORTHERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 415 PM EST
* AT 346 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED WEST OF CAVE
SPRING...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CEDARTOWN...ARAGON...ROCKMART...TAYLORSVILLE AND EUHARLEE.
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.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 3423 8493 3408 8493 3396 8498 3402 8541
3421 8545
TIME...MOT...LOC 2050Z 276DEG 51KT 3412 8548
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 4:04 AM EST | Wind Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 15 hr |
| Feb 28, 2:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 50 min |
| Feb 28, 2:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 45 min |
| Feb 28, 3:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Walker | 37 min |
| Feb 28, 3:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 32 min |
| Feb 28, 3:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 31 min |
| Feb 28, 3:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon | 48 min |
| Feb 28, 4:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Pickens | 51 min |
| Feb 28, 4:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd | 13 min |
| Feb 28, 4:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 28 min |
| Feb 28, 4:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Hall | 50 min |
| Feb 28, 4:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Forsyth, Fulton | 35 min |
| Feb 28, 5:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 41 min |
| Feb 28, 5:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and 3 more | 44 min |
| Feb 28, 5:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, Douglas, Fulton, Paulding | 41 min |
| Feb 28, 5:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 35 min |
| Feb 28, 6:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 33 min |
| Feb 28, 6:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 39 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.