Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2011, 3:12 PM EDT for Fannin County, Gilmer County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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
- May 26, 2011, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2011, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Fannin County, GA, Gilmer County, GA
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:30 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Mineral Bluff, GA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 10:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 516 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
830
WUUS52 KFFC 261912
SVRFFC
GAC111-123-261945-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0245.110526T1912Z-110526T1945Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
312 PM EDT THU MAY 26 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN FANNIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
EASTERN GILMER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 345 PM EDT
* AT 311 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING BASEBALL SIZED HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF BLUE RIDGE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
MORGANTON.
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.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3498 8414 3495 8418 3489 8411 3485 8414
3481 8414 3480 8413 3480 8410 3477 8410
3462 8438 3483 8447 3499 8418 3499 8414
TIME...MOT...LOC 1912Z 230DEG 33KT 3472 8430
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 47 min |
| May 26, 3:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Walker and 1 more | 43 min |
| May 26, 5:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 44 min |
| May 26, 1:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 52 min |
| May 26, 1:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 25 min |
| May 26, 1:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 38 min |
| May 26, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Gordon, Murray | 52 min |
| May 26, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 34 min |
| May 26, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray | 52 min |
| May 26, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walker | 37 min |
| May 26, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens | 32 min |
| May 26, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 44 min |
| May 26, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 44 min |
| May 26, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 31 min |
| May 26, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 39 min |
| May 26, 3:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 23 min |
| May 26, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 47 min |
| May 26, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 40 min |
| May 26, 3:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon, Murray | 38 min |
| May 26, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Gordon, Murray | 50 min |
| May 26, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 45 min |
| May 26, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 25 min |
| May 26, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 38 min |
| May 26, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 31 min |
| May 26, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Union | 61 min |
| May 26, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fulton | 46 min |
| May 26, 4:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Union | 32 min |
| May 26, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee, Stewart | 34 min |
| May 26, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens | 45 min |
| May 26, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 24 min |
| May 26, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 28 min |
| May 26, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Gilmer, Pickens | 30 min |
| May 26, 5:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Towns | 38 min |
| May 26, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Rockdale | 35 min |
| May 26, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Hall | 49 min |
| May 26, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 28 min |
| May 26, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 25 min |
| May 26, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, Union, White | 22 min |
| May 26, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 37 min |
| May 26, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 33 min |
| May 26, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, Douglas, Forsyth, Fulton and 1 more | 40 min |
| May 26, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Webster | 37 min |
| May 26, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Upson | 34 min |
| May 26, 6:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 29 min |
| May 26, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin, White | 39 min |
| May 26, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin, White | 35 min |
| May 26, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, DeKalb, Henry, Monroe, Rockdale | 34 min |
| May 26, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 30 min |
| May 26, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 42 min |
| May 26, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Newton | 39 min |
| May 26, 6:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 36 min |
| May 26, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones | 41 min |
| May 26, 6:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs | 24 min |
| May 26, 6:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall | 22 min |
| May 26, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 32 min |
| May 26, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and 4 more | 41 min |
| May 26, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 31 min |
| May 26, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 50 min |
| May 26, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 50 min |
| May 26, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro, Wilkes | 33 min |
| May 26, 7:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 24 min |
| May 26, 7:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 32 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.