Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2011, 3:20 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Treutlen County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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
- Mar 26, 2011, 3:20 PM EDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2011, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Emanuel County, GA, Treutlen County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 3:50 PM EDT | HAIL 1.25 | Soperton, GA |
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 26, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
903
WUUS52 KFFC 261920
SVRFFC
GAC107-283-262000-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0034.110326T1920Z-110326T2000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
320 PM EDT SAT MAR 26 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
TREUTLEN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 400 PM EDT
* AT 316 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
SOUTHWEST OF SOPERTON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO OAK
PARK...NUNEZ...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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3254 8203 3255 8209 3251 8215 3244 8218
3236 8224 3232 8223 3231 8225 3229 8235
3232 8236 3236 8241 3230 8270 3234 8275
3243 8270 3270 8209 3266 8207 3261 8200
TIME...MOT...LOC 1919Z 255DEG 33KT 3233 8264
$$
16The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 9:25 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dade | 39 hr |
| Mar 26, 10:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd, Gordon | 4 hr |
| Mar 26, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wheeler | 39 min |
| Mar 26, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Treutlen | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 2:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 29 min |
| Mar 26, 3:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Talbot | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot, Upson | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 3:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot, Upson | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 3:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 44 min |
| Mar 26, 4:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fayette, Spalding | 44 min |
| Mar 26, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Monroe | 64 min |
| Mar 26, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 31 min |
| Mar 26, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar, Monroe, Spalding | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 4:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Monroe | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 39 min |
| Mar 26, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 44 min |
| Mar 26, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Butts, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Pike, Talbot, Upson | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee, Talbot | 56 min |
| Mar 26, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Sumter, Wilcox | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Wilkes | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Washington | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 34 min |
| Mar 26, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens, Washington, Wilkinson | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 51 min |
| Mar 26, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington, Wilkinson | 15 min |
| Mar 26, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Lamar, Monroe | 24 min |
| Mar 26, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington, Wilkinson | 24 min |
| Mar 26, 7:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 28 min |
| Mar 26, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 54 min |
| Mar 26, 7:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Stewart | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 24 min |
| Mar 26, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Peach, Twiggs | 38 min |
| Mar 26, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield, Wilkes | 51 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.