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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 515, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 22, 2011, 4:52 PM EST for Bartow County, Floyd County, Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 min. 6 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
- Dec 22, 2011, 4:52 PM EST (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 22, 2011, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bartow County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Gordon County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 5:00 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Rome, GA | MORE THAN 6 TREES DOWN ALL ACROSS THE COUNTY. |
| Dec 22, 5:03 PM EST | TORNADO 0 | 3 Nw Shannon, GA | A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASSESSMENT TEAM DETERMINED THAT EF0 DAMAGE BEGAN IN FAR NORTHEAST FLOYD COUNTY NEAR HIGHWAY 140 NORTH OF SHANNON AND CONTINUED INTO GORDON COUNTY. |
| Dec 22, 5:06 PM EST | TORNADO 3 | 5 Ese Calhoun, GA | *** 4 INJ *** CONTINUATION OF TORNADO FROM FLOYD COUNTY...A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASSESSMENT TEAM DETERMINED TORNADO STRENGTHENED TO AN EF1 ALONG EMILY LANE JUST EAST OF PLAINVILLE IN SOUTHWEST GORDON COUNTY WHERE SEVERAL HOMES WERE DAMAGED FROM FALLING TRE |
| Dec 22, 5:19 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 3 W Adairsville, GA | BARTOW 911 RELAYED A REPORT THAT MANY TREES ARE DOWN AND DAMAGE TO HOMES AROUND SR 140 AND OAK GROVE ROAD. |
| Dec 22, 5:25 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 4 S Calhoun, GA | RELAYED FROM CHEROKEE COUNTY EMA...MAJOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE IN SOUTHERN GORDON COUNTY. MANY HOMES WITH DAMAGE AND ONE HOUSE AT LEAST WAS DESTROYED. |
| Dec 22, 5:25 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 5 S Calhoun, GA | BARTOW 911 RELAYS A REPORT OF I75 BLOCKED BY DOWNED TREES BETWEEN EXITS 306 AND 315. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 3:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
160
WUUS52 KFFC 222152
SVRFFC
GAC015-115-129-222215-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0515.111222T2152Z-111222T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
452 PM EST THU DEC 22 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 515 PM EST
* AT 450 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60
MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROME...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55
MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
SHANNON...KINGSTON...PLAINVILLE...ADAIRSVILLE...CALHOUN...WHITE AND
RESACA.
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.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EST THURSDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3438 8533 3443 8518 3446 8517 3462 8487
3461 8486 3461 8475 3463 8473 3462 8471
3460 8472 3458 8465 3436 8466 3435 8464
3431 8466 3414 8528 3436 8535
TIME...MOT...LOC 2152Z 244DEG 47KT 3427 8517
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 9:11 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 47 more | 11 hr |
| Dec 22, 8:04 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 47 more | 116 min |
| Dec 22, 3:51 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 39 min |
| Dec 22, 4:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 61 min |
| Dec 22, 4:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 32 min |
| Dec 22, 4:34 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns, Union | 26 min |
| Dec 22, 4:37 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Murray and 2 more | 53 min |
| Dec 22, 4:39 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard, Troup | 66 min |
| Dec 22, 4:56 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 34 min |
| Dec 22, 5:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 32 min |
| Dec 22, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard | 45 min |
| Dec 22, 5:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Murray, Pickens | 25 min |
| Dec 22, 5:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Pickens | 31 min |
| Dec 22, 5:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Troup | 43 min |
| Dec 22, 5:36 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 24 min |
| Dec 22, 5:40 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 35 min |
| Dec 22, 5:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether | 46 min |
| Dec 22, 6:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Pike, Talbot, Upson | 43 min |
| Dec 22, 6:08 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall | 37 min |
| Dec 22, 6:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Pike, Spalding | 49 min |
| Dec 22, 6:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion, Schley, Taylor | 25 min |
| Dec 22, 6:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 27 min |
| Dec 22, 6:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 47 min |
| Dec 22, 6:58 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Gwinnett, Jackson, Madison and 1 more | 47 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.