Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 278, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2011, 4:37 PM EDT for Lumpkin County, Union County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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 6, 2011, 4:37 PM EDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2011, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lumpkin County, GA, Union County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 536 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1249 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
342
WUUS52 KFFC 062037
SVRFFC
GAC187-291-062100-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0278.110606T2037Z-110606T2100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
437 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WESTERN LUMPKIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHERN UNION COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 500 PM EDT
* AT 432 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SUCHES...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
DAHLONEGA.
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.
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 3482 8387 3444 8402 3447 8411 3454 8419
3460 8419 3473 8410 3480 8410 3480 8413
3489 8407
TIME...MOT...LOC 2037Z 025DEG 33KT 3471 8405
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 25 min |
| Jun 6, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Lumpkin, Union | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pickens | 31 min |
| Jun 6, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 35 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.