Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 347, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2011, 5:31 PM EDT for Cobb County, Haralson County, Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min. 3 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 18, 2011, 5:31 PM EDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2011, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cobb County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Paulding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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 18, 5:40 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Dallas, GA | NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY WITH SEVERAL REPORTED IN THE DALLAS AREA. |
| Jun 18, 6:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Marietta, GA | 2 TREES DOWN ON 2 CARS IN MARIETTA. NUMEROUS OTHER TREES DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY. |
| Jun 18, 6:15 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | 5 Sse Marietta, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 1149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
074
WUUS52 KFFC 182131
SVRFFC
GAC067-143-223-182215-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0347.110618T2131Z-110618T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
531 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
EXTREME NORTHEASTERN HARALSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 615 PM EDT
* AT 527 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 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF DALLAS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HIRAM...POWDER SPRINGS...AUSTELL...SMYRNA AND MARIETTA.
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.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3396 8504 3395 8498 3406 8493 3396 8444
3376 8459 3380 8463 3380 8472 3379 8473
3379 8475 3390 8505
TIME...MOT...LOC 2131Z 289DEG 22KT 3396 8492
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 8:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Warren, Wilkes | 39 min |
| Jun 18, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 4:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray | 29 min |
| Jun 18, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Gordon, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Pickens, Union | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 26 min |
| Jun 18, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 38 min |
| Jun 18, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 33 min |
| Jun 18, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan | 30 min |
| Jun 18, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Gilmer, Pickens | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Oconee, Walton | 29 min |
| Jun 18, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Pickens | 30 min |
| Jun 18, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 25 min |
| Jun 18, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Hall, Jackson | 32 min |
| Jun 18, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 31 min |
| Jun 18, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Newton, Rockdale, Walton | 25 min |
| Jun 18, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 41 min |
| Jun 18, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 28 min |
| Jun 18, 6:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan, Walton | 33 min |
| Jun 18, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Walton | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 37 min |
| Jun 18, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 38 min |
| Jun 18, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, Henry | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oglethorpe | 30 min |
| Jun 18, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 31 min |
| Jun 18, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan | 43 min |
| Jun 18, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Fulton | 15 min |
| Jun 18, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 36 min |
| Jun 18, 7:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 14 min |
| Jun 18, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 7:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock | 44 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.