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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 26, 20115 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2011, 7:52 PM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 38 min. 4 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: Mar 26, 2011, 7:52 PM EDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2011, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bibb County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Houston County, GA, Peach County, GA, Twiggs County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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
Mar 26, 7:56 PM EDT	HAIL 1.25	4 Ese Sandy Point, GA
Mar 26, 7:57 PM EDT	HAIL 1	2 W Rutland, GA	ROTATING WALL CLOUD ALSO OBSERVED TO THE WEST
Mar 26, 8:10 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 Ene Byron, GA	A NWS ASSESSMENT TEAM DETERMINED WITH THE HELP OF THE COUNTY EM THAT STRAIGHT LINE WINDS OF 75 MPH REMOVED 40 PERCENT OF THE ROOF OF THE DAYS INN MOTEL IN BYRON. A BILLBOARD ALSO SUSTAINED SOME MINOR DAMAGE. THE ROOF WAS A SECONDARY ROOF INSTALLED AFTER THE OR
Mar 26, 8:13 PM EDT	TORNADO	Centerville, GA	TORNADO REPORTED AT THE MIDDLE GEORGIA REGIONAL AIRPORT.

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
Mar 26, 1:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

062 
WUUS52 KFFC 262352
SVRFFC
GAC021-079-153-225-289-270030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0060.110326T2352Z-110327T0030Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  EASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN PEACH COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  CENTRAL TWIGGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 750 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 9 MILES WEST
  OF BYRON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  CENTERVILLE AND WARNER ROBINS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. ALTHOUGH
CURRENT DATA DOES NOT INDICATE THE EXISTENCE OF A TORNADO...A TORNADO
MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO
A PLACE OF SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

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 3279 8338 3253 8344 3266 8403 3283 8390
TIME...MOT...LOC 2352Z 279DEG 31KT 3268 8388

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 9:25 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dade	39 hr
Mar 26, 10:02 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Floyd, Gordon	4 hr
Mar 26, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Telfair, Wheeler	39 min
Mar 26, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens, Treutlen	48 min
Mar 26, 2:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	29 min
Mar 26, 3:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Harris, Meriwether, Talbot	35 min
Mar 26, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Treutlen	40 min
Mar 26, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard	49 min
Mar 26, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Talbot, Upson	52 min
Mar 26, 3:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Talbot, Upson	46 min
Mar 26, 3:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Coweta, Meriwether	44 min
Mar 26, 4:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Fayette, Spalding	44 min
Mar 26, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Monroe	64 min
Mar 26, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	31 min
Mar 26, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Lamar, Monroe, Spalding	49 min
Mar 26, 4:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Monroe	46 min
Mar 26, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	39 min
Mar 26, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson, Paulding, Polk	44 min
Mar 26, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Butts, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam	50 min
Mar 26, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Meriwether, Pike, Talbot, Upson	46 min
Mar 26, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	41 min
Mar 26, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Muscogee, Talbot	56 min
Mar 26, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Sumter, Wilcox	41 min
Mar 26, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taliaferro, Wilkes	40 min
Mar 26, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Hancock, Washington	45 min
Mar 26, 5:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly	40 min
Mar 26, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	34 min
Mar 26, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Laurens, Washington, Wilkinson	47 min
Mar 26, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Stewart	51 min
Mar 26, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Wilcox	35 min
Mar 26, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Washington, Wilkinson	15 min
Mar 26, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Lamar, Monroe	24 min
Mar 26, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson	47 min
Mar 26, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Washington, Wilkinson	24 min
Mar 26, 7:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel	28 min
Mar 26, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe	46 min
Mar 26, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Stewart	54 min
Mar 26, 7:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Stewart	45 min
Mar 26, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	24 min
Mar 26, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield, Wilkes	51 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.