Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2011, 3:24 PM EST for Emanuel County, Treutlen County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min. 2 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, 3:24 PM EST (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2011, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Emanuel County, GA, Treutlen County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
630
WUUS52 KFFC 092024
SVRFFC
GAC107-283-092115-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0028.110309T2024Z-110309T2115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
324 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
TREUTLEN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 415 PM EST
* AT 321 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 SWAINSBORO TO 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF SOPERTON
TO SOPERTON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
NUNEZ...SUMMERTOWN...OAK PARK...TWIN CITY...STILLMORE AND GARFIELD.
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 3254 8203 3255 8209 3251 8215 3236 8224
3232 8223 3229 8235 3236 8241 3230 8267
3257 8257 3265 8247 3268 8250 3278 8240
3280 8241 3282 8239 3283 8232 3281 8221
3282 8215 3266 8207 3259 8200
TIME...MOT...LOC 2024Z 261DEG 34KT 3269 8248 3249 8249
3231 8261
$$1 follow-up statement
070
WWUS52 KFFC 092047
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
347 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011
GAC283-092057-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0028.000000T0000Z-110309T2115Z/
TREUTLEN GA-
347 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TREUTLEN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN
CANCELLED.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA.
LAT...LON 3254 8203 3255 8209 3251 8215 3236 8224
3232 8223 3229 8235 3237 8241 3244 8238
3247 8244 3276 8243 3278 8240 3280 8241
3283 8235 3281 8221 3282 8215 3266 8207
3259 8200
TIME...MOT...LOC 2047Z 261DEG 34KT 3272 8222 3252 8224
3234 8236
$$
GAC107-092115-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0028.000000T0000Z-110309T2115Z/
EMANUEL GA-
347 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM EST
FOR EMANUEL COUNTY...
AT 344 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 SUMMERTOWN TO LEXSY TO OAK PARK...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CANOOCHEE...TWIN CITY...STILLMORE...GEORGE L SMITH STATE PARK AND
GARFIELD.
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 3254 8203 3255 8209 3251 8215 3236 8224
3232 8223 3229 8235 3237 8241 3244 8238
3247 8244 3276 8243 3278 8240 3280 8241
3283 8235 3281 8221 3282 8215 3266 8207
3259 8200
TIME...MOT...LOC 2047Z 261DEG 34KT 3272 8222 3252 8224
3234 8236
$$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, 2:44 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, 3:27 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.