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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 18, 2012Dade County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2012, 7:07 PM EDT for Dade County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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 18, 2012, 7:07 PM EDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2012, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Dade County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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 18, 7:19 PM EDT	HAIL 1	1 Nnw Morganville, GA	PUBLIC REPORTED NICKLE TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL COVERING SLYGO ROAD IN NORTHERN DADE COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATED TIME AROUND 1919 EDT.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 790 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1195 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 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.

666 
WUUS52 KFFC 182307
SVRFFC
GAC083-182330-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0117.120518T2307Z-120518T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
707 PM EDT FRI MAY 18 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 705 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 7 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF TRENTON...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  MORGANVILLE...NEW ENGLAND...COLE CITY AND STEPHENSVILLE.

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 3499 8546 3498 8538 3491 8542 3484 8558
      3484 8559 3495 8561 3498 8561 3499 8560
      3499 8547
TIME...MOT...LOC 2307Z 077DEG 12KT 3496 8545

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 8:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Douglas, Fulton	41 min
May 17, 8:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette	25 min
May 17, 8:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	49 min
May 17, 8:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas	46 min
May 17, 9:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas, Fulton	44 min
May 17, 9:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth	39 min
May 17, 10:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard	30 min
May 18, 1:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	31 min
May 18, 1:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gilmer, Murray	51 min
May 18, 2:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	44 min
May 18, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gilmer	45 min
May 18, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Towns, Union	26 min
May 18, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin, Union	26 min
May 18, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	38 min
May 18, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Floyd	45 min
May 18, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade, Walker	46 min
May 18, 7:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade	33 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.