Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2011, 10:43 PM EDT for Catoosa County, Murray County, Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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 27, 2011, 10:43 PM EDT (02:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2011, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Catoosa County, GA, Murray County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 11:06 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Chatsworth, GA | MURRAY COUNTY 911 REPORTS MORE THAN HALF A DOZEN DOWNED TREES COUNTYWIDE. |
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 27, 2:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:52 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 15.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
213
WUUS52 KFFC 280243
SVRFFC
GAC047-213-313-280330-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0215.110428T0243Z-110428T0330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1043 PM EDT WED APR 27 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN CATOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
NORTHERN MURRAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
WHITFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT
* AT 1039 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 16 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF DALTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
TUNNEL HILL...VARNELL...COHUTTA...CHATSWORTH AND ETON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EDT THURSDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3499 8462 3477 8464 3463 8505 3472 8505
3472 8516 3473 8517 3477 8515 3478 8520
3481 8520 3500 8496 3500 8474
TIME...MOT...LOC 0244Z 244DEG 48KT 3469 8514
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 8:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Polk | 62 min |
| Apr 27, 9:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Murray | 43 min |
| Apr 27, 9:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Dawson, Paulding, Pickens | 38 min |
| Apr 27, 9:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade | 22 min |
| Apr 27, 9:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 9:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Dawson, Gilmer, Gordon, Lumpkin and 1 more | 59 min |
| Apr 27, 9:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 9:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fannin, Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 10:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Floyd, Polk | 41 min |
| Apr 27, 10:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Walker | 52 min |
| Apr 27, 10:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 66 min |
| Apr 27, 10:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding | 21 min |
| Apr 27, 10:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Dawson, Gilmer, Gordon, Pickens | 53 min |
| Apr 27, 11:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Harris, Heard, Meriwether, Troup | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 11:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 11:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Troup | 40 min |
| Apr 27, 11:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Fulton, Heard | 34 min |
| Apr 27, 11:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fannin, Lumpkin, Towns, Union | 60 min |
| Apr 27, 11:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Talbot, Troup | 46 min |
| Apr 27, 11:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Gilmer, Pickens | 40 min |
| Apr 27, 11:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 46 min |
| Apr 27, 11:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin, White | 53 min |
| Apr 28, 12:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Henry, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 12:06 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Pike, Talbot, Upson | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 12:38 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 12:41 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar, Monroe, Pike, Upson | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 1:06 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Walton | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 1:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Monroe, Putnam | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 1:38 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Putnam, Taliaferro, Warren | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 1:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 57 min |
| Apr 28, 2:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Monroe, Putnam, Upson | 57 min |
| Apr 28, 2:28 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Monroe | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 2:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Jones, Putnam, Taliaferro, Warren | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 3:04 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hancock, Warren | 41 min |
| Apr 28, 3:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Putnam | 57 min |
| Apr 28, 3:37 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Warren | 38 min |
| Apr 28, 4:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jones | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 4:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Glascock, Hancock, Warren | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 4:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren, Washington, Wilkinson | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 5:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 10:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski, Wilcox | 33 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.