Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 366, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2011, 7:21 PM EDT for Floyd County, Haralson County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2011, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2011, 8:04 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Floyd County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Polk County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
496
WUUS52 KFFC 222321
SVRFFC
GAC115-143-233-230015-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0366.110622T2321Z-110623T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
721 PM EDT WED JUN 22 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
NORTHWESTERN HARALSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 815 PM EDT
* AT 717 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60
MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF TALLAPOOSA...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
BUCHANAN...CAVE SPRING...CEDARTOWN...ROCKMART...ARAGON AND
BRASWELL.
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 3428 8509 3421 8504 3409 8504 3408 8495
3405 8493 3396 8497 3395 8505 3391 8505
3390 8503 3386 8504 3369 8535 3412 8543
TIME...MOT...LOC 2321Z 244DEG 41KT 3389 8541
$$2 follow-up statements
222
WWUS52 KFFC 222349
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
749 PM EDT WED JUN 22 2011
GAC115-143-233-230015-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0366.000000T0000Z-110623T0015Z/
POLK GA-FLOYD GA-HARALSON GA-
749 PM EDT WED JUN 22 2011
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM EDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN HARALSON...SOUTHERN FLOYD AND POLK COUNTIES...
AT 745 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP
TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FISH CREEK...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 45 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ARAGON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
&&
LAT...LON 3428 8509 3421 8504 3409 8504 3408 8495
3405 8493 3397 8498 3395 8505 3391 8505
3390 8503 3386 8504 3381 8524 3415 8535
TIME...MOT...LOC 2349Z 244DEG 41KT 3403 8506
$$300
WWUS52 KFFC 230004
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
804 PM EDT WED JUN 22 2011
GAC115-143-233-230014-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0366.000000T0000Z-110623T0015Z/
POLK GA-FLOYD GA-HARALSON GA-
804 PM EDT WED JUN 22 2011
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN
HARALSON...SOUTHEASTERN FLOYD AND POLK COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO PRODUCE
SEVERE WEATHER. HOWEVER...STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...VERY
HEAVY RAIN...AND SMALL HAIL ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER 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 3428 8509 3421 8504 3409 8504 3408 8495
3405 8493 3397 8498 3395 8505 3391 8505
3390 8503 3386 8504 3381 8524 3415 8535
TIME...MOT...LOC 0004Z 244DEG 41KT 3410 8487
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 8:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 8:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 8:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 39 min |
| Jun 21, 8:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 49 min |
| Jun 21, 9:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 40 min |
| Jun 21, 9:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 41 min |
| Jun 21, 10:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Jun 21, 11:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 51 min |
| Jun 22, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Heard, Meriwether, Troup | 41 min |
| Jun 22, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Chattahoochee, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Harris and 5 more | 33 min |
| Jun 22, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton and 4 more | 39 min |
| Jun 22, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and 4 more | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and 3 more | 54 min |
| Jun 22, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin, Union | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Houston, Jasper, Jones, Peach and 2 more | 38 min |
| Jun 22, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Clarke, Hall, Jackson, Madison, Oconee and 1 more | 38 min |
| Jun 22, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 27 min |
| Jun 22, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 40 min |
| Jun 22, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Heard | 39 min |
| Jun 22, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Heard | 47 min |
| Jun 22, 7:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 7:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, Douglas | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 7:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Gordon, Pickens | 49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.