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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 15, 2011Johnson County, Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2011, 10:03 PM EDT for Johnson County, Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 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 15, 2011, 10:03 PM EDT (02:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2011, 10:45 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 15, 10:20 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG5 N Brewton, GA911 REPORTS SEVERAL TREES AND SEVERAL POWERLINES DOWN ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY.
Jun 15, 10:39 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGScott, GAJOHNSON COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT RELAYED A REPORT OF A FEW TREES DOWN IN THE SCOTT AREA. ALSO A NURSING HOME WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING IN SCOTT.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 15, 7:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2011-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1682 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2011-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1682 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2119 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

604 
WUUS52 KFFC 160203
SVRFFC
GAC167-175-160245-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0313.110616T0203Z-110616T0245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1003 PM EDT WED JUN 15 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT

* AT 1000 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 6 MILES NORTH
  OF EAST DUBLIN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  WRIGHTSVILLE.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3272 8245 3269 8250 3265 8247 3264 8251
      3262 8252 3258 8260 3253 8257 3251 8266
      3250 8264 3247 8265 3250 8297 3272 8294
      3278 8247 3276 8244
TIME...MOT...LOC 0203Z 267DEG 20KT 3264 8285

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 8:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCOconee, Oglethorpe44 min
Jun 15, 8:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDawson, Fannin, Lumpkin24 min
Jun 15, 8:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMorgan31 min
Jun 15, 8:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee35 min
Jun 15, 8:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBartow13 min
Jun 15, 8:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWalker24 min
Jun 15, 8:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJasper, Morgan, Walton53 min
Jun 15, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Paulding35 min
Jun 15, 8:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow29 min
Jun 15, 8:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCForsyth51 min
Jun 15, 9:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCherokee28 min
Jun 15, 9:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd, Polk17 min
Jun 15, 9:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBartow26 min
Jun 15, 9:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCobb, Fulton45 min
Jun 15, 9:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGordon44 min
Jun 15, 9:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBarrow, Morgan, Oconee, Walton24 min
Jun 15, 10:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJasper, Newton53 min
Jun 15, 10:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTelfair, Wheeler51 min
Jun 15, 10:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCButts, Coweta, Fayette, Lamar, Monroe, Pike and 1 more28 min
Jun 15, 10:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCEmanuel36 min
Jun 15, 10:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBartow, Cherokee, Paulding, Polk44 min
Jun 15, 10:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen57 min
Jun 15, 10:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCatoosa, Walker, Whitfield38 min
Jun 15, 10:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens33 min
Jun 15, 10:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPaulding31 min
Jun 15, 10:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge, Laurens, Telfair, Wheeler43 min
Jun 15, 10:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCrisp33 min
Jun 15, 11:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCDeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett2 hr
Jun 15, 11:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrawford, Dooly, Harris, Peach, Talbot, Taylor26 min
Jun 15, 11:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCobb, Fulton, Haralson, Paulding41 min
Jun 15, 11:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattahoochee, Crisp, Dooly, Macon, Marion, Muscogee and 5 more50 min
Jun 15, 11:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Dodge, Pulaski47 min
Jun 15, 11:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Wheeler40 min
Jun 15, 11:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Douglas, Paulding22 min
Jun 15, 11:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens, Treutlen44 min
Jun 15, 11:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Houston, Pulaski15 min
Jun 15, 11:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMacon, Schley38 min
Jun 15, 11:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee, Marion, Stewart, Webster20 min
Jun 16, 12:05 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCarroll25 min
Jun 16, 12:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge, Laurens, Telfair, Wheeler50 min
Jun 16, 12:21 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattahoochee, Muscogee39 min
Jun 16, 12:35 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee, Muscogee22 min
Jun 16, 12:50 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMeriwether, Pike, Spalding, Talbot40 min
Jun 16, 1:05 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMarion, Schley, Stewart40 min
Jun 16, 1:23 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBibb, Crawford37 min
Jun 16, 9:12 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris, Meriwether, Troup33 min
Jun 16, 9:45 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTalbot45 min
Jun 16, 9:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris, Talbot46 min
Jun 16, 10:44 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTalbot46 min
Jun 16, 1:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattahoochee, Muscogee43 min
Jun 16, 2:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMacon, Marion41 min
Jun 16, 2:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWebster45 min
Jun 16, 2:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMacon, Schley, Sumter50 min
Jun 16, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp, Dooly, Sumter42 min
Jun 16, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTelfair18 min
Jun 16, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTelfair, Wilcox43 min
Jun 16, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilcox51 min
Jun 16, 6:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilcox18 min
Jun 16, 6:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTelfair27 min
Jun 16, 6:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTelfair35 min
Jun 16, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge, Telfair46 min
Jun 16, 7:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMontgomery48 min
Jun 16, 7:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDodge26 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.