Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 473, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2011, 6:08 PM EDT for Telfair County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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
- Aug 9, 2011, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2011, 6:34 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Telfair County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:10 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Nw Horse Creek Wma, GA | TELFAIR COUNTY 911 RELAYED REPORT OF A DOWNED TREE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 640 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
198
WUUS52 KFFC 092208
SVRFFC
GAC271-092245-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0473.110809T2208Z-110809T2245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
608 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN TELFAIR COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 645 PM EDT
* AT 606 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HORSE
CREEK WMA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.
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 3178 8297 3193 8295 3190 8269 3185 8275
3185 8277 3183 8279 3178 8286 3178 8290
TIME...MOT...LOC 2209Z 265DEG 19KT 3182 8285
$$1 follow-up statement
491
WWUS52 KFFC 092234
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
634 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011
GAC271-092244-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0473.000000T0000Z-110809T2245Z/
TELFAIR GA-
634 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN TELFAIR COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF SOUTHEASTERN TELFAIR COUNTY
AND SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTED.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3178 8297 3193 8295 3190 8269 3185 8275
3185 8277 3183 8279 3178 8286 3178 8290
TIME...MOT...LOC 2234Z 265DEG 19KT 3183 8270
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 8:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard, Troup | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 8:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Rockdale | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 8:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 8:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oconee, Walton | 48 min |
| Aug 8, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin | 45 min |
| Aug 8, 8:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 8:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson | 34 min |
| Aug 8, 9:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 25 min |
| Aug 8, 9:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette, Spalding | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 9:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 9:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 10:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 10:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 2:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Muscogee, Pike, Talbot, Upson | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Taylor, Upson | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe, Pike, Upson | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston, Peach, Twiggs | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Jefferson | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Wilkinson | 35 min |
| Aug 9, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Schley, Stewart, Webster | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan | 31 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.