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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 26, 2011Stewart County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2011, 6:09 PM EDT for Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 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
Mar 26, 2011, 6:09 PM EDT (22:09 UTC)
Expired
Mar 26, 2011, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Stewart County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 26, 1:15 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2011-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2011-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 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.

638 
WUUS52 KFFC 262209
SVRFFC
GAC259-262300-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0051.110326T2209Z-110326T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
609 PM EDT SAT MAR 26 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  STEWART COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 604 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 22 MILES WEST
  OF LUMPKIN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  LUMPKIN AND RICHLAND.

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3194 8495 3197 8497 3197 8504 3199 8507
      3214 8507 3220 8498 3222 8498 3223 8489
      3222 8481 3224 8465 3223 8465 3218 8463
      3216 8465 3192 8466 3192 8488
TIME...MOT...LOC 2209Z 257DEG 36KT 3205 8511

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 9:25 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningFFCDade39 hr
Mar 26, 10:02 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCFloyd, Gordon4 hr
Mar 26, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge, Telfair, Wheeler39 min
Mar 26, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge, Laurens, Treutlen48 min
Mar 26, 2:46 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCHarris, Troup29 min
Mar 26, 3:10 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCHarris, Meriwether, Talbot35 min
Mar 26, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel, Treutlen40 min
Mar 26, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Heard49 min
Mar 26, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether, Talbot, Upson52 min
Mar 26, 3:44 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCMeriwether, Talbot, Upson46 min
Mar 26, 3:46 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCCoweta, Meriwether44 min
Mar 26, 4:01 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCFayette, Spalding44 min
Mar 26, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Crawford, Monroe64 min
Mar 26, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Fayette31 min
Mar 26, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Lamar, Monroe, Spalding49 min
Mar 26, 4:44 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCBibb, Crawford, Monroe46 min
Mar 26, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris, Troup39 min
Mar 26, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHaralson, Paulding, Polk44 min
Mar 26, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin, Butts, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam50 min
Mar 26, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris, Meriwether, Pike, Talbot, Upson46 min
Mar 26, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs, Wilkinson41 min
Mar 26, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris, Muscogee, Talbot56 min
Mar 26, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp, Dooly, Sumter, Wilcox41 min
Mar 26, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTaliaferro, Wilkes40 min
Mar 26, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin, Hancock, Washington45 min
Mar 26, 5:50 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCCrisp, Dooly40 min
Mar 26, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCUpson34 min
Mar 26, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJohnson, Laurens, Washington, Wilkinson47 min
Mar 26, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp, Wilcox35 min
Mar 26, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGlascock, Jefferson, Washington, Wilkinson15 min
Mar 26, 6:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Crawford, Lamar, Monroe24 min
Mar 26, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel, Johnson47 min
Mar 26, 6:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJohnson, Washington, Wilkinson24 min
Mar 26, 7:06 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCEmanuel28 min
Mar 26, 7:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClarke, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe46 min
Mar 26, 7:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee, Stewart54 min
Mar 26, 7:30 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCStewart45 min
Mar 26, 7:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel24 min
Mar 26, 7:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Crawford, Houston, Peach, Twiggs38 min
Mar 26, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCatoosa, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield, Wilkes51 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.