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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2011, 8:01 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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 25, 2011, 8:01 PM EDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2011, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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 25, 8:03 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Nw Greenville, GA | MERIWETHER COUNTY 911 RELAYED REPORTS OF A DOWNED TREE ALONG HWY 100 NEAR DOGWOOD FARM. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 1305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1272 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
336
WUUS52 KFFC 260001
SVRFFC
GAC199-260030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0194.110426T0001Z-110426T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
801 PM EDT MON APR 25 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 830 PM EDT
* AT 756 PM EDT...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 NEAR
GREENVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
GAY...LONE OAK AND LUTHERSVILLE.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3320 8485 3322 8485 3323 8466 3322 8452
3305 8453 3304 8454 3293 8453 3297 8484
3319 8486
TIME...MOT...LOC 0001Z 189DEG 24KT 3304 8476
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Pickens | 52 min |
| Apr 25, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 28 min |
| Apr 25, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 27 min |
| Apr 26, 2:41 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 30 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.