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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 485, NWS Atlanta, GA

September 25, 2011Wilkes County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 2011, 1:11 PM EDT for Wilkes 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: Sep 25, 2011, 1:11 PM EDT (17:11 UTC)
Expired: Sep 25, 2011, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Wilkes County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:14 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 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.

588 
WUUS52 KFFC 251711
SVRFFC
GAC317-251800-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0485.110925T1711Z-110925T1800Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
111 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN WILKES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT

* AT 107 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 RAYLE...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  WASHINGTON AND TIGNALL.

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 3371 8289 3379 8295 3398 8276 3399 8273
      3399 8267 3393 8262 3388 8260 3387 8256
      3382 8259 3378 8256 3376 8256
TIME...MOT...LOC 1711Z 234DEG 14KT 3377 8287

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 25, 12:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	33 min
Sep 25, 12:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes	47 min
Sep 25, 1:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs	28 min
Sep 25, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	39 min
Sep 25, 2:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs	38 min
Sep 25, 2:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	37 min
Sep 25, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson	35 min
Sep 25, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	50 min
Sep 25, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson, Johnson, Telfair, Treutlen, Wheeler	32 min
Sep 25, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Warren	21 min
Sep 25, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson, Johnson	48 min
Sep 25, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	29 min
Sep 25, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	27 min
Sep 25, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene	23 min
Sep 25, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro	30 min
Sep 25, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene	27 min
Sep 25, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	25 min
Sep 25, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene, Putnam	29 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.