Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 433, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2011, 4:54 PM EDT for Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
- Jul 9, 2011, 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2011, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Jones County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 1773 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 847 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
037
WUUS52 KFFC 092054
SVRFFC
GAC169-092130-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0433.110709T2054Z-110709T2130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
454 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
JONES COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 530 PM EDT
* AT 450 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60
MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GRAY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CLINTON...HADDOCK...JAMES...POSTELL...GREENBERRY CROSSROADS...
MOUNTAIN SPRINGS AND GRISWOLDVILLE.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3288 8357 3287 8358 3289 8360 3289 8365
3291 8369 3318 8350 3318 8348 3312 8341
3293 8336 3284 8353
TIME...MOT...LOC 2054Z 320DEG 13KT 3306 8351
$$1 follow-up statement
019
WWUS52 KFFC 092129
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
529 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 2011
GAC169-092137-
/O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0433.000000T0000Z-110709T2130Z/
JONES GA-
529 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 2011
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR JONES COUNTY EXPIRES AT 530 PM
EDT...
AT 524 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM NEAR GREENBERRY CROSSROADS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER SEVERE. THE
WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 530 PM EDT. SOME GUSTY WINDS
MAY STILL BE POSSIBLE AS IT MOVES SOUTHEAST...BUT THE WIND WILL
REMAIN BELOW SEVERE CRITERIA.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3288 8357 3287 8358 3289 8360 3289 8365
3291 8369 3318 8350 3318 8348 3312 8341
3293 8336 3284 8353
TIME...MOT...LOC 2127Z 320DEG 13KT 3297 8342
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 32 min |
| Jul 8, 8:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Putnam | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 8:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Putnam | 38 min |
| Jul 8, 8:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 9:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Hancock | 28 min |
| Jul 9, 4:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pickens | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 1:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 49 min |
| Jul 9, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 25 min |
| Jul 9, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin | 39 min |
| Jul 9, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 52 min |
| Jul 9, 4:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 25 min |
| Jul 9, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 35 min |
| Jul 9, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 28 min |
| Jul 9, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 27 min |
| Jul 9, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford | 41 min |
| Jul 9, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 35 min |
| Jul 9, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 40 min |
| Jul 9, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 32 min |
| Jul 9, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 42 min |
| Jul 9, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 35 min |
| Jul 9, 6:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 38 min |
| Jul 9, 6:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 37 min |
| Jul 9, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 45 min |
| Jul 9, 7:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 24 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.