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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2011, 5:51 PM EDT for Banks County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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
- Jun 3, 2011, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2011, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Banks County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1879 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
543
WUUS52 KFFC 032151
SVRFFC
GAC011-032230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0276.110603T2151Z-110603T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
551 PM EDT FRI JUN 3 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT
* AT 550 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTH OF HOMER...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BANKS
CROSSING.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS 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.
&&
LAT...LON 3423 8342 3426 8348 3429 8360 3436 8366
3441 8363 3448 8355 3446 8341
TIME...MOT...LOC 2151Z 008DEG 22KT 3443 8352
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 10:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 11:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry | 17 min |
| Jun 2, 11:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 12:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 12:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 39 min |
| Jun 3, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 29 min |
| Jun 3, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Jun 3, 6:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 41 min |
| Jun 3, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jackson | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Jackson | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery | 48 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.