Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 288, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2011, 7:23 PM EDT for Douglas County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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
- Jun 9, 2011, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Douglas County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:27 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Douglasville, GA | NUMEROUS POWER LINES DOWN ACROSS DOUGLASVILLE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 830 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1434 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
711
WUUS52 KFFC 092323
SVRFFC
GAC097-100000-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0288.110609T2323Z-110610T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
723 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 800 PM EDT
* AT 722 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
DOUGLASVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CHAPEL HILL.
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 3378 8478 3366 8465 3365 8466 3365 8470
3362 8474 3363 8475 3358 8482 3367 8490
3370 8490
TIME...MOT...LOC 2323Z 311DEG 9KT 3369 8476
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 8:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jackson | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 1:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 2:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walker | 51 min |
| Jun 9, 2:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 2:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 38 min |
| Jun 9, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pickens | 25 min |
| Jun 9, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 3:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 3:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 38 min |
| Jun 9, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 21 min |
| Jun 9, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 30 min |
| Jun 9, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 26 min |
| Jun 9, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 30 min |
| Jun 9, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 28 min |
| Jun 9, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Newton | 23 min |
| Jun 9, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Peach | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade, Walker | 27 min |
| Jun 9, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan | 26 min |
| Jun 9, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 25 min |
| Jun 9, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 24 min |
| Jun 9, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 25 min |
| Jun 9, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 25 min |
| Jun 9, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 24 min |
| Jun 9, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 25 min |
| Jun 9, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Putnam | 27 min |
| Jun 9, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 24 min |
| Jun 9, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 24 min |
| Jun 9, 7:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 7:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 26 min |
| Jun 9, 7:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock | 37 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.