Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 495, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 2011, 2:00 PM EDT for Harris County, Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 min. 2 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
- Oct 13, 2011, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2011, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Harris County, GA, Talbot County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2:01 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 S Hamilton, GA | HARRIS COUNTY 911 RELAYED REPORTS OF 6-10 DOWNED TREES ALONG THE AREAS OF HWY 219 AND HWY 103. |
| Oct 13, 2:07 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Ne Waverly Hall, GA | HARRIS COUNTY 911 RELAYED A REPORT OF A DOWNED TREE ON ALABAMA ROAD. |
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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 314 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 461 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
676
WUUS52 KFFC 131800
SVRFFC
GAC145-263-131830-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0495.111013T1800Z-111013T1830Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
200 PM EDT THU OCT 13 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
WESTERN TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 230 PM EDT
* AT 158 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60
MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HAMILTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
WAVERLY HALL AND SHILOH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 3285 8458 3260 8457 3259 8491 3261 8491
3261 8499 3285 8501
TIME...MOT...LOC 1800Z 261DEG 38KT 3270 8486
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 1:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 37 min |
| Oct 13, 2:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 27 min |
| Oct 13, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike, Talbot, Upson | 32 min |
| Oct 13, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Lamar, Monroe, Taylor | 32 min |
| Oct 13, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 25 min |
| Oct 13, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Jasper, Jones, Putnam, Twiggs | 33 min |
| Oct 13, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Stewart | 34 min |
| Oct 13, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Greene, Hancock, Washington, Wilkinson | 28 min |
| Oct 13, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon, Marion, Schley, Webster | 30 min |
| Oct 13, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 29 min |
| Oct 13, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Warren, Washington | 26 min |
| Oct 13, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 27 min |
| Oct 13, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 26 min |
| Oct 13, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 36 min |
| Oct 13, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 36 min |
| Oct 13, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 25 min |
| Oct 13, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 42 min |
| Oct 13, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 33 min |
| Oct 13, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 30 min |
| Oct 13, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 47 min |
| Oct 13, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Candler | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 28 min |
| Oct 13, 7:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 24 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.