Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2012, 5:49 PM EDT for Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report 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, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2012, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Jones County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 6:05 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 S Round Oak, GA | ONE TREE BLOWN DOWN ON OLD GEORGIA HIGHWAY 11. |
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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 99 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.
060
WUUS52 KFFC 172149
SVRFFC
GAC169-172230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0110.120517T2149Z-120517T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
549 PM EDT THU MAY 17 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
JONES COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT
* AT 544 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 6 MILES
NORTHEAST OF GRAY...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HADDOCK...WAYSIDE...BRADLEY...CLINTON...JAMES...GREENBERRY
CROSSROADS AND POSTELL.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE
ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...HAIL OR 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. YOU CAN ALSO TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG GAWX.
&&
LAT...LON 3294 8339 3288 8352 3293 8364 3309 8374
3317 8355 3310 8343
TIME...MOT...LOC 2149Z 011DEG 9KT 3306 8346
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 8:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 41 min |
| May 16, 8:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 50 min |
| May 16, 8:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly | 49 min |
| May 16, 8:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 61 min |
| May 16, 8:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 53 min |
| May 16, 9:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 59 min |
| May 16, 10:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 41 min |
| May 16, 11:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 48 min |
| May 17, 11:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Bleckley, Twiggs | 31 min |
| May 17, 12:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly | 50 min |
| May 17, 12:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Macon | 46 min |
| May 17, 1:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 61 min |
| May 17, 2:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 43 min |
| May 17, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 47 min |
| May 17, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan | 45 min |
| May 17, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan | 67 min |
| May 17, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 26 min |
| May 17, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes | 31 min |
| May 17, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Glascock, Greene, Hancock, Jefferson, Madison and 3 more | 25 min |
| May 17, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Jefferson, Johnson, Wilkinson | 53 min |
| May 17, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth, Hall | 46 min |
| May 17, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oconee, Walton | 51 min |
| May 17, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Emanuel, Laurens, Montgomery, Treutlen and 1 more | 44 min |
| May 17, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer | 41 min |
| May 17, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 45 min |
| May 17, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall | 40 min |
| May 17, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 46 min |
| May 17, 7:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 37 min |
| May 17, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 48 min |
| May 17, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Stewart, Sumter, Webster | 44 min |
| May 17, 7:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pickens | 37 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.