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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 473, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 9, 2011Telfair County, Georgia

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 9, 6:10 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG1 Nw Horse Creek Wma, GATELFAIR 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2011-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 640 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2011-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 8:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHeard, Troup42 min
Aug 8, 8:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHenry, Rockdale28 min
Aug 8, 8:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCToombs35 min
Aug 8, 8:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCOconee, Walton48 min
Aug 8, 8:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFannin45 min
Aug 8, 8:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCJefferson28 min
Aug 8, 8:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGlascock, Jefferson34 min
Aug 8, 9:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCrisp25 min
Aug 8, 9:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFayette, Spalding39 min
Aug 8, 9:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHarris37 min
Aug 8, 9:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCJefferson36 min
Aug 8, 10:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCLamar, Monroe44 min
Aug 8, 10:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBibb33 min
Aug 9, 2:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBibb, Twiggs50 min
Aug 9, 2:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHarris, Meriwether, Muscogee, Pike, Talbot, Upson45 min
Aug 9, 3:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCPike27 min
Aug 9, 3:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCrawford, Taylor, Upson49 min
Aug 9, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLamar, Monroe, Pike, Upson52 min
Aug 9, 4:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBanks52 min
Aug 9, 4:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGlascock, Jefferson32 min
Aug 9, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMonroe44 min
Aug 9, 4:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHouston, Peach, Twiggs36 min
Aug 9, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Dodge, Pulaski47 min
Aug 9, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Jones47 min
Aug 9, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee, Stewart36 min
Aug 9, 4:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCEmanuel50 min
Aug 9, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel, Jefferson45 min
Aug 9, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs42 min
Aug 9, 5:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTreutlen32 min
Aug 9, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin, Wilkinson35 min
Aug 9, 5:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCSchley, Stewart, Webster26 min
Aug 9, 5:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTelfair24 min
Aug 9, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel36 min
Aug 9, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp30 min
Aug 9, 5:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCToombs36 min
Aug 9, 6:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCToombs25 min
Aug 9, 7:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMorgan31 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.