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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 3, 2011Crisp County, Dooly County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2011, 9:15 PM EDT for Crisp County, Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 2011, 9:15 PM EDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2011, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 2201 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

416 
WUUS52 KFFC 040115
SVRFFC
GAC081-093-040145-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0227.110504T0115Z-110504T0145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
915 PM EDT TUE MAY 3 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CRISP COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN DOOLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 910 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 ARABI...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  CORDELE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE
ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

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 3185 8394 3190 8389 3216 8361 3201 8361
      3181 8361 3180 8381
TIME...MOT...LOC 0115Z 228DEG 29KT 3190 8376

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 9:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilcox	31 min
May 3, 10:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	28 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.