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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 454, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 5, 2011Dade County, Walker County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2011, 4:56 PM EDT for Dade County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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
Aug 5, 2011, 4:56 PM EDT (20:56 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2011, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2011-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2607 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2011-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2607 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

317 
WUUS52 KFFC 052056
SVRFFC
GAC083-295-052145-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0454.110805T2056Z-110805T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
456 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  NORTHWESTERN WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 452 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60
  MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF TRENTON...MOVING
  SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO COLE
  CITY...WILDWOOD...MORGANVILLE...CHATTANOOGA VALLEY...NEW ENGLAND...
  STEPHENSVILLE...CLOUDLAND CANYON STATE PARK...COOPER HEIGHTS...
  RISING FAWN AND CEDAR GROVE.

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 3498 8533 3471 8540 3472 8556 3495 8561
      3498 8561 3499 8560
TIME...MOT...LOC 2056Z 004DEG 22KT 3499 8558

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 4:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBanks41 min
Aug 5, 5:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMadison, Oglethorpe32 min
Aug 5, 5:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWalker25 min
Aug 5, 6:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMadison, Oglethorpe, Wilkes43 min
Aug 5, 6:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMadison28 min
Aug 5, 6:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCMadison2 hr
Aug 5, 7:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCOconee, Walton27 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.