Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 391, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2011, 6:29 PM EDT for Carroll County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 26, 2011, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2011, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Carroll County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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 26, 6:35 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Ne Whitesburg, GA | SEVERAL TREES DOWN BLOCKING STATE HWY 5 TOWARDS DOUGLAS COUNTY |
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 26, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 1451 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
003
WUUS52 KFFC 262229
SVRFFC
GAC045-262300-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0391.110626T2229Z-110626T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
629 PM EDT SUN JUN 26 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 700 PM EDT
* AT 624 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM VILLA RICA TO CARROLLTON TO
ROOPVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
WHITESBURG.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT 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 900 PM EDT SUNDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3361 8524 3369 8515 3369 8511 3372 8505
3378 8505 3381 8502 3378 8490 3358 8491
3357 8481 3355 8483 3352 8482 3344 8494
3346 8498 3343 8502 3344 8531
TIME...MOT...LOC 2228Z 293DEG 22KT 3375 8492 3356 8501
3343 8517
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 11:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 23 min |
| Jun 26, 12:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 14 min |
| Jun 26, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Hall | 24 min |
| Jun 26, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley, Taylor | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 24 min |
| Jun 26, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 20 min |
| Jun 26, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 15 min |
| Jun 26, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Floyd, Walker, Whitfield | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 4:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 23 min |
| Jun 26, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wheeler | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Polk, Walker and 1 more | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 24 min |
| Jun 26, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding, Pickens | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray | 39 min |
| Jun 26, 6:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard, Troup | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton and 2 more | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 6:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Hall, Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jackson | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 6:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Fulton, Henry, Spalding | 39 min |
| Jun 26, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 53 min |
| Jun 26, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 7:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Walton | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Lamar, Newton and 3 more | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar, Monroe, Pike, Spalding | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Marion, Taylor | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Hall, Jackson, Morgan and 4 more | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 7:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Taylor | 30 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.