Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 296, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2011, 3:38 PM EDT for Heard County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 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
- Jun 11, 2011, 3:38 PM EDT (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2011, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Heard County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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 11, 3:43 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 W Centralhatchee, GA | HEARD COUNTY 911 RELAYED A REPORT OF TWO TREES DOWN WEST OF CENTRALHATCHEE. |
| Jun 11, 4:10 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Ese Centralhatchee, GA | HEARD COUNTY 911 RELAYED A REPORT OF QUARTER SIZED HAIL AND TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE. |
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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 636 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1406 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
306 WUUS52 KFFC 111938 SVRFFC GAC149-112030- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0296.110611T1938Z-110611T2030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 338 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HEARD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 333 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 CENTRALHATCHEE THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. 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 3325 8520 3342 8524 3341 8504 3326 8497 TIME...MOT...LOC 1938Z 068DEG 2KT 3336 8518 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 10:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 24 min |
| Jun 10, 10:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 12:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 2:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth, Hall | 26 min |
| Jun 11, 3:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 1:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 19 min |
| Jun 11, 2:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 2:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 23 min |
| Jun 11, 2:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 34 min |
| Jun 11, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 34 min |
| Jun 11, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 28 min |
| Jun 11, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 24 min |
| Jun 11, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 25 min |
| Jun 11, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 33 min |
| Jun 11, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 25 min |
| Jun 11, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jackson | 23 min |
| Jun 11, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Madison | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 7:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 24 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.