Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2012, 3:27 PM EDT for Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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
- May 17, 2012, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2012, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Lincoln County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 3:31 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | 8 Nnw Lincolnton, GA | PUBLIC REPORTED NICKEL SIZE HAIL THAT COVERED THE GROUND OFF OF TABERNACLE CHURCH ROAD. |
| May 17, 3:32 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 7 Nnw Lincolnton, GA | SHERIFF DISPATCH REPORTED TREES DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 79 NEAR TABERNACLE CHURCH 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1197 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
910
WUUS52 KCAE 171927
SVRCAE
GAC181-172000-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0092.120517T1927Z-120517T2000Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
327 PM EDT THU MAY 17 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 400 PM EDT
* AT 320 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
MCCORMICK COUNTY...OR 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF WASHINGTON...AND MOVING
WEST AT 20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF ON OR NEAR LAKE THURMOND...GET OUT OF THE WATER AND MOVE INDOORS
OR INSIDE A VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE OUT TO 15 MILES
FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE
CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER NOW.
DON'T BE CAUGHT ON THE WATER IN A THUNDERSTORM!
REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...TOLL FREE 1 877 6 3
3...6 7 7 2.
&&
LAT...LON 3399 8261 3394 8256 3394 8252 3386 8243
3387 8241 3384 8240 3378 8258 3384 8260
3387 8258 3386 8261 3387 8261 3398 8265
TIME...MOT...LOC 1927Z 074DEG 18KT 3390 8253
$$Nearby
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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.