Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 448, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2011, 4:41 PM EDT for Marion County, Schley County, Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- Jul 14, 2011, 4:41 PM EDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2011, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Marion County, GA, Schley County, GA, Sumter County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 4:49 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | La Crosse, GA | 1 TREE DOWN |
| Jul 14, 4:50 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Ellaville, GA | 5 TREES DOWN AND SHINGLES BLOWN OFF ROOF. |
| Jul 14, 4:50 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Leslie, GA | SEVERAL TREES DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 280 |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1607 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
984
WUUS52 KFFC 142041
SVRFFC
GAC197-249-261-142115-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0448.110714T2041Z-110714T2115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
441 PM EDT THU JUL 14 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN MARION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHERN SCHLEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 515 PM EDT
* AT 439 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 ANDERSONVILLE TO 7 MILES NORTH OF
LESLIE TO 7 MILES EAST OF DESOTO...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
AMERICUS AND ELLAVILLE.
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 3195 8425 3209 8441 3233 8451 3228 8422
3223 8422 3223 8417 3204 8399 3193 8395
TIME...MOT...LOC 2042Z 104DEG 4KT 3220 8422 3206 8409
3196 8395
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 8:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe | 30 min |
| Jul 14, 1:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 1:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 1:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jeff Davis | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 1:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 23 min |
| Jul 14, 2:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 24 min |
| Jul 14, 2:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 2:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 2:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 3:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 24 min |
| Jul 14, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 3:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 4:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 48 min |
| Jul 14, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Houston, Peach | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 6:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 38 min |
| Jul 14, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 6:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 30 min |
| Jul 14, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Pike | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 7:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 7:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson, Washington | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 7:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.