Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 400, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2011, 8:09 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 36 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 26, 2011, 8:09 PM EDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2011, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Putnam County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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, 8:34 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 7 Sw Monticello, GA | ONE TREE DOWN. |
| Jun 26, 8:39 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Wayside, GA | SIX TO 12 TREES DOWN COUNTY WIDE. |
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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 250 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
111
WUUS52 KFFC 270009
SVRFFC
GAC159-169-207-237-270045-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0400.110627T0009Z-110627T0045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
809 PM EDT SUN JUN 26 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN JASPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
JONES COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
MONROE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHWESTERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 845 PM EDT
* AT 806 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 MONTICELLO TO SOUTH OF FORSYTH...MOVING
EAST AT 35 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
GRAY...JULIETTE...HILLSBORO...ROUND OAK...BOLINGBROKE...
STANFORDVILLE AND PIEDMONT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
WIND DAMAGE WITH THIS STORM WILL OCCUR WELL AHEAD OF ANY RAIN OR
LIGHTNING. DO NOT WAIT FOR THE SOUND OF THUNDER BEFORE TAKING COVER.
SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
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 3289 8360 3289 8365 3295 8371 3285 8389
3285 8405 3318 8388 3320 8386 3318 8382
3319 8381 3322 8383 3335 8375 3330 8341
3316 8343 3293 8336 3284 8351
TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 279DEG 31KT 3326 8368 3303 8384
3284 8393
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 23 min |
| Jun 26, 8:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oconee, Oglethorpe | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 8:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 8:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Putnam | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 8:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 8:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Peach | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 8:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 39 min |
| Jun 26, 8:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Webster | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 8:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 8:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Butts, Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Monroe | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 9:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Twiggs | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 9:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wheeler | 24 min |
| Jun 26, 9:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Hancock, Madison, Morgan, Oconee and 3 more | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 9:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 9:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson, Laurens, Washington, Wilkinson | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 10:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 10:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 10:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 10:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 10:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Emanuel, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs and 2 more | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 11:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 9:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 9:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 26 min |
| Jun 27, 10:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 21 min |
| Jun 27, 10:52 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 23 min |
| Jun 27, 11:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 11:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 27 min |
| Jun 27, 12:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 32 min |
| Jun 27, 12:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Paulding | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 1:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 37 min |
| Jun 27, 1:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 25 min |
| Jun 27, 1:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 49 min |
| Jun 27, 1:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 28 min |
| Jun 27, 2:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 30 min |
| Jun 27, 2:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 24 min |
| Jun 27, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 29 min |
| Jun 27, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 35 min |
| Jun 27, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Pickens | 49 min |
| Jun 27, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee | 38 min |
| Jun 27, 6:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 26 min |
| Jun 27, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 43 min |
| Jun 27, 7:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 46 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.