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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2011, 2:44 PM EST for 6 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 46 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, 2:44 PM EST (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2011, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Emanuel County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Wheeler County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 3:00 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Lothair, GA | TREUTLEN COUNTY 911 RELAYED REPORTS OF 3 DOWNED TREES IN LOTHAIR. |
| Mar 9, 3:10 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 E Scott, GA | 4 TREES DOWN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY BETWEEN SCOTT AND ADRIAN. |
| Mar 9, 3:27 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 4 S Soperton, GA | TREUTLEN COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTS STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE TO A HOUSE BETWEEN SOPERTON AND MOUNT VERNON IN TREUTLEN COUNTY. |
| Mar 9, 3:36 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 3 S Swainsboro, GA | EMANUEL COUNTY 911 RELAYED A REPORT OF A DOWNED TREE ON CANOOCHEE ROAD SOUTH OF SWAINSBORO. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 2:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.
273
WUUS52 KFFC 091944
SVRFFC
GAC107-167-175-209-283-309-092030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0026.110309T1944Z-110309T2030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
244 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHERN WHEELER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
WESTERN EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
TREUTLEN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 330 PM EST
* AT 241 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
10 MILES NORTH OF DUBLIN TO RENTZ TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF CADWELL...
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO EAST
DUBLIN...WRIGHTSVILLE...ADRIAN...SOPERTON...NUNEZ...SWAINSBORO AND
TARRYTOWN.
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 800 PM EST
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3233 8236 3234 8239 3235 8241 3222 8244
3219 8281 3220 8289 3218 8300 3231 8308
3241 8301 3267 8306 3272 8296 3277 8240
3248 8227
TIME...MOT...LOC 1943Z 269DEG 30KT 3268 8295 3241 8294
3225 8307
$$1 follow-up statement
311
WWUS52 KFFC 092017
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
317 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011
GAC175-092027-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0026.000000T0000Z-110309T2030Z/
LAURENS GA-
317 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LAURENS COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN
CANCELLED.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA.
LAT...LON 3233 8236 3235 8241 3222 8244 3220 8286
3231 8273 3234 8275 3240 8270 3246 8269
3247 8265 3249 8264 3253 8268 3261 8267
3274 8270 3277 8240 3248 8227
TIME...MOT...LOC 2017Z 269DEG 30KT 3268 8261 3241 8260
3225 8273
$$
GAC107-167-209-283-309-092030-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0026.000000T0000Z-110309T2030Z/
WHEELER GA-TREUTLEN GA-MONTGOMERY GA-JOHNSON GA-EMANUEL GA-
317 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM EST
FOR WESTERN EMANUEL...EASTERN JOHNSON...NORTHERN MONTGOMERY...
TREUTLEN AND NORTHERN WHEELER COUNTIES...
AT 315 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
FROM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MEEKS TO SOPERTON TO LANDSBURG...MOVING
EAST AT 35 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
BARNHILL...BLACKVILLE...ADRIAN...KITE...ZAIDEE...NORRISTOWN...GILLIS
SPRINGS...FIVE POINTS...KIBBEE...LEXSY...DELLWOOD...COVENA...
BLUNDALE...NUNEZ...SWAINSBORO...TARRYTOWN AND NORRISTOWN JUNCTION.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER 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 800 PM EST
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3233 8236 3235 8241 3222 8244 3220 8286
3231 8273 3234 8275 3240 8270 3246 8269
3247 8265 3249 8264 3253 8268 3261 8267
3274 8270 3277 8240 3248 8227
TIME...MOT...LOC 2017Z 269DEG 30KT 3268 8261 3241 8260
3225 8273
$$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, 1:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Pulaski | 51 min |
| Mar 9, 2:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox | 44 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.