Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2012, 10:22 PM EDT for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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 29, 2012, 10:22 PM EDT (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2012, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Floyd County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 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 29, 10:35 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Coosa, GA | FLOYD COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTS SEVERAL DOWNED TREES MAINLY IN THE WHEELING DRIVE AREA IN COOSA. RADAR ESTIMATED TIME OF 2235 EDT. |
| May 29, 10:44 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Rome, GA | FLOYD COUNTY 911 RELAYED REPORTS OF 2 DOWNED TREES IN THE ROME AREA. RADAR ESTIMATED TIME AROUND 2244 EDT. |
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 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
649
WUUS52 KFFC 300222
SVRFFC
GAC115-300245-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0135.120530T0222Z-120530T0245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1022 PM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT
* AT 1017 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP
TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NORTHWEST OF ROME...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
SHANNON...COOSA AND ARMUCHEE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
WIND DAMAGE WITH THIS STORM WILL OCCUR AHEAD OF ANY RAIN OR LIGHTNING.
DO NOT WAIT FOR THE SOUND OF THUNDER BEFORE TAKING COVER. SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 3438 8533 3440 8525 3442 8524 3444 8518
3432 8502 3425 8502 3422 8503 3421 8505
3416 8504 3411 8530 3429 8539
TIME...MOT...LOC 0221Z 305DEG 25KT 3437 8534
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 9:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Dade | 42 min |
| May 29, 9:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 37 min |
| May 29, 9:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Gordon, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 62 min |
| May 29, 10:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 24 min |
| May 29, 10:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray and 3 more | 47 min |
| May 29, 10:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd | 31 min |
| May 29, 11:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens, Union | 41 min |
| May 29, 11:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 46 min |
| May 29, 11:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding | 40 min |
| May 30, 12:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, Forsyth, Lumpkin, Towns and 2 more | 28 min |
| May 30, 12:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, DeKalb, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton and 3 more | 40 min |
| May 30, 12:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Heard, Meriwether, Pike and 2 more | 62 min |
| May 30, 1:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Lamar, Monroe, Muscogee, Talbot, Upson | 58 min |
| May 30, 2:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Crawford, Macon, Marion, Muscogee, Peach and 5 more | 43 min |
| May 30, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs | 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.