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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2011, 1:54 PM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 51 min. 4 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
- Mar 9, 2011, 1:54 PM EST (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2011, 2:45 PM EST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bleckley County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Pulaski County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 2:08 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Sw Cary, GA | BLECKLY COUNTY 911 RELAYED REPORTS OF OVER A DOZEN DOWNED TREES ALONG HIGHWAY 112 SOUTHWEST OF CARY. |
| Mar 9, 2:23 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Sw Chester, GA | DODGE COUNTY 911 RELAYED A REPORT OF A DOWNED LINE ON THE EMPIRE-CHESTER HWY IN NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY. IT IS THOUGHT THE LINE MAY BE A TELEPHONE LINE. |
| Mar 9, 2:29 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Ssw Dexter, GA | LAURENS COUNTY 911 RELAYED REPORTS OF 6-12 DOWNED TREES IN THE WESTERN END OF THE COUNTY ALONG WITH 4-5 POWER LINES DOWNED IN DEXTER. |
| Mar 9, 2:35 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Ssw Dudley, GA | LAURENS COUNTY 911 RELAYED REPORTS OF 3 DOWNED TREES NEAR MILE MARKER 42 OF EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 16. |
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 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 690 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 795 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
771
WUUS52 KFFC 091854
SVRFFC
GAC023-091-175-235-091945-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0024.110309T1854Z-110309T1945Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
154 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BLECKLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
WESTERN LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 245 PM EST
* AT 151 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP
TO 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
12 MILES NORTHWEST OF COCHRAN TO HAWKINSVILLE TO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF HAWKINSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CHESTER...MONTROSE...DUDLEY...DEXTER...CADWELL...EASTMAN...RENTZ
AND DUBLIN.
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 3214 8361 3229 8361 3240 8353 3239 8350
3241 8348 3245 8350 3246 8349 3261 8318
3266 8292 3235 8285 3212 8309
TIME...MOT...LOC 1854Z 269DEG 40KT 3249 8348 3234 8348
3221 8363
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 3:13 AM EST | Wind Advisory | FFC | Chattooga, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin and 6 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 9, 6:38 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dade | 43 hr |
| Mar 9, 8:49 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 6 days |
| Mar 9, 9:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 9:35 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 59 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:39 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 3 days |
| Mar 9, 10:39 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 49 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:39 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 11 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:39 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Oconee | 11 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:58 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 5 hr |
| Mar 9, 11:28 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 7 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:11 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 20 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Sumter | 48 min |
| Mar 9, 2:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox | 44 min |
| Mar 9, 2:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler | 46 min |
| Mar 9, 2:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler | 48 min |
| Mar 9, 3:03 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Polk | 8 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:17 PM EST | Wind Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 28 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 51 min |
| Mar 9, 3:27 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd, Gordon | 4 days |
| Mar 9, 3:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 41 min |
| Mar 9, 3:46 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 51 hr |
| Mar 9, 5:59 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd | 56 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.